5/4 · Gorillaz

55 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 96 BPM, 2:38 of playing on crash, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
23/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-16, 23 and 25-36 -- 59.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 96 BPM
5/4 · BARS 5-6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 4 sections: 30 keep time, 11 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-36.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesBS4DS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 5/4?

96 BPM, in 5/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is 5/4 hard to play on drums?

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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