Cigarettes After Sex · Nothing's Gonna Hurt You Baby

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:29 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-112 -- 96.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
CIGARETTES AFTER SEX · BAR 9
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 3 sections: 107 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-112.

OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cigarettes After Sex?

100 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 Cigarettes After Sex hard to play on drums?

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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