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Cigarette Daydreams · Cage The Elephant

EXERCISE 15 OF 18
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 69-71)
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cigarette Daydreams on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, silence through bars 13-24, hi-hat through bars 25-61, silence through bars 62-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-78.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-------|
Cigarette Daydreams -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-36 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 33-70 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED