Celluloid Heroes · The Kinks

72 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:05
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 15-17 and 19-24, and 4 more places -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
CELLULOID HEROES · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 4 sections: 61 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-43.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBGUS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Celluloid Heroes?

138 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 Celluloid Heroes hard to play on drums?

49 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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