Cardiac Arrest · Bad Suns

72 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8 and 18-49 -- 53% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 118 BPM
CARDIAC ARREST · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 58.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 6 sections: 62 keep time, 2 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-49.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
VERSE
5 groovesCGES1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cardiac Arrest?

118 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 Cardiac Arrest hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Cardiac Arrest?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 58.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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