Borderline · Madonna

116 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

PopElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15-17 and 19, and 39 more places -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BORDERLINE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 5 sections: 105 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-101.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
4 groovesFCS1DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Borderline?

120 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 Borderline hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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