Cannonball · The Breeders

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 4:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-24 and 26-37, and 5 more places -- 61.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 96 BPM
CANNONBALL · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 38, 40, 83 and 99.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 99
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 10 sections: 73 keep time, 4 are fills, 3 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-37.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEIS1S2S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cannonball?

96 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 Cannonball hard to play on drums?

57 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Cannonball?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 38, 40, 83 and 99.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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