Are Friends Electric · Tubeway Army

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 5:17 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopElectronic90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-31, 51 and 53-124 -- 83.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 94 BPM
ARE FRIENDS ELECTRIC · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 3 sections: 120 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-124.

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

Questions

What BPM is Are Friends Electric?

94 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 Are Friends Electric hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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