4th Of July · Soundgarden

90 bars, 5:04, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25 and 27, and 8 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 71 BPM
4TH OF JULY · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 34, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 11 more.

LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 12 sections: 38 keep time, 17 are fills and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-33.

COUNT-IN
BREAK 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART P
PART C
OUTRO
9 groovesHCS3PU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 4th Of July?

71 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is 4th Of July hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 4th Of July?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 34, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 11 more.

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