Cherry lips · Garbage

92 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 41-47 and 49-56, and 3 more places -- 55.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 118 BPM
CHERRY LIPS · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 48, 72 and 80.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 12 sections: 66 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-56.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
7 groovesDCBS1S12+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cherry lips?

118 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Cherry lips hard to play on drums?

51 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 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 Cherry lips?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 48, 72 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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