Boys Will Be Bugs · Cavetown

120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 5:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-29, 32-35 and 38-51, and 7 more places -- 63.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BOYS WILL BE BUGS · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 61 and 62.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 5 sections: 100 keep time, 2 are fills and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-60.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
4 groovesBS1IDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Boys Will Be Bugs?

86 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 Boys Will Be Bugs hard to play on drums?

36 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 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.

How many fills are in Boys Will Be Bugs?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 61 and 62.

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