Cigarettes out the Window · TV Girl

92 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-27, 45-59 and 85-91 -- 40.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 114 BPM
CIGARETTES OUT THE WINDOW · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 92.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 92
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 9 sections: 78 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-27.

VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEBAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cigarettes out the Window?

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 Cigarettes out the Window 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Cigarettes out the Window?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 92.

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