Calling Elvis · Dire Straits

126 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-27, 29-31 and 33-36, and 7 more places -- 51.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 117 BPM
CALLING ELVIS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 28, 60, 64, 68, 70, 82 and 5 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 8 sections: 104 keep time, 11 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-27.

CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
CHORUS 3
VERSE 3
4 groovesBEIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Calling Elvis?

117 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 Calling Elvis hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Calling Elvis?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 28, 60, 64, 68, 70, 82 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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