Closer;) · Kings of Leon

151 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10 and 12, and 52 more places -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 156 BPM
CLOSER;) · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 139 and 141.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 139 · LANDS ON BAR 140 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 6 sections: 136 keep time, 2 are fills, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-88.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesBIFS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Closer;)?

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

Is Closer;) hard to play on drums?

52 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?

151 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Closer;)?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 139 and 141.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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