Area 51 · Nolan Edwards

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 13-24 and 29-40, and 2 more places -- 71% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
AREA 51 · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 9 sections: 58 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-24.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Area 51?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Area 51 hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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