Come A Little Closer · Cage The Elephant

137 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 11 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 148 BPM
COME A LITTLE CLOSER · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 40, 60, 76, 119, 120 and 6 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 119-122 · LANDS ON BAR 123 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 129-130 · LANDS ON BAR 131 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 8 sections: 101 keep time, 12 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-22.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDALOKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Come A Little Closer?

148 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 Come A Little Closer hard to play on drums?

49 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Come A Little Closer?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 40, 60, 76, 119, 120 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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