Calypso · Spiderbait

74 bars at 183 BPM -- fast, and 1:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
1:45
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 11 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 183 BPM
CALYPSO · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 12 sections: 23 keep time, 3 are fills, 6 are stops and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-65.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART S9
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCS9S1ES5+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Calypso?

183 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Calypso hard to play on drums?

44 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 1:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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