Cigarette Daydreams · Cage The Elephant

78 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 37-39, and 5 more places -- 58.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 114 BPM
CIGARETTE DAYDREAMS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 60 and 78.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 78
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 7 sections: 48 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-59.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDS3S6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cigarette Daydreams?

114 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 Cigarette Daydreams hard to play on drums?

53 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Cigarette Daydreams?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 60 and 78.

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