Back Against The Wall · Cage The Elephant

101 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-16, 25-32 and 49-60 -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BACK AGAINST THE WALL · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 39, 40, 67, 68, 84 and 92.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 10 sections: 80 keep time and 7 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAFCIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Back Against The Wall?

110 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 Back Against The Wall hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Back Against The Wall?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 39, 40, 67, 68, 84 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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