Cicada · Good Kid

122 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 2:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 18-24 and 42-49, and 3 more places -- 35.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 178 BPM
CICADA · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 25, 41, 65, 73, 81, 97 and 5 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 178 BPM
BARS 97-99 · LANDS ON BAR 100 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 10 sections: 98 keep time, 11 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-24.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBELJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cicada?

178 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Cicada hard to play on drums?

45 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.

How many fills are in Cicada?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 25, 41, 65, 73, 81, 97 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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