Busted Stuff · Dave Matthews Band

80 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 132 BPM, 3:36 of playing on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 11 more places -- 74.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BUSTED STUFF · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 2 sections: 54 keep time and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-54.

OUTRO
BREAK
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Busted Stuff?

132 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Busted Stuff hard to play on drums?

60 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, 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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