Cloud 9 · Beach Bunny

94 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 2:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / Indie150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 31-41 and 61-68 -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 162 BPM
CLOUD 9 · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 14, 44 and 93.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 11 sections: 76 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-43.

CHORUS
PART E
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAEBKH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cloud 9?

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

Is Cloud 9 hard to play on drums?

50 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Cloud 9?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 14, 44 and 93.

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