A Certain Shade Of Green · Incubus

90 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-28 and 38-52 -- 35.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 123 BPM
A CERTAIN SHADE OF GREEN · BARS 14-15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 11 sections: 72 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-28.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDFPKS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Certain Shade Of Green?

123 BPM, in 4/4, 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 A Certain Shade Of Green hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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