Cactus · Pixies

67 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 2:12 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
26/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-21, 23-32 and 34-50, and 2 more places -- 86% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 116 BPM
CACTUS · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 65 and 66.

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 2 sections: 54 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-64.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cactus?

116 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 Cactus hard to play on drums?

26 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 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Cactus?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 65 and 66.

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