Cars · Fear Factory

114 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-18, 59-67 and 69-70, and 2 more places -- 53.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
CARS · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 38, 58, 68 and 78.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 9 sections: 97 keep time, 4 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-114.

CHORUS
PART C
VERSE
PART C
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
OUTRO
4 groovesBFCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cars?

128 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 Cars hard to play on drums?

60 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Cars?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 38, 58, 68 and 78.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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