Big Bang Baby · Stone Temple Pilots

102 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-20, 22-24 and 43-44, and 9 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BIG BANG BABY · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 42.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 8 sections: 83 keep time, 1 is a fill and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-93.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDAGLKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Big Bang Baby?

124 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 Big Bang Baby hard to play on drums?

42 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Big Bang Baby?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 42.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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