Born Under A Bad Sign · Cream

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:10 of playing, on ride, snare and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 93% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-47, 50-61 and 64-73 -- 93.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars: 73 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-73.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Born Under A Bad Sign?

92 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 Born Under A Bad Sign hard to play on drums?

58 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, 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.

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