Cause for Concern · Lovejoy

125 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-34, 37 and 41, and 10 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 148 BPM
CAUSE FOR CONCERN · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 35, 36 and 12 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 29-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 11 sections: 81 keep time, 19 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART A
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART S7
PART AA
PART AC
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFKAAAAC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cause for Concern?

148 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 Cause for Concern hard to play on drums?

64 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Cause for Concern?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 35, 36 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Lovejoy drum parts

EVERY LOVEJOY CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →