A Double Suicide · Sheena Ringo

12 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 0:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Electronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
12
LENGTH
0:22
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10 -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
A DOUBLE SUICIDE · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 11 and 12.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 11-12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

12 bars across 2 sections: 8 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-5.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Double Suicide?

132 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 Double Suicide hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

12 bars, about 0:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in A Double Suicide?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 11 and 12.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 12 BARS ANALYSED
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