Con · Tegan And Sara

113 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 27-29 and 31, and 14 more places -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
CON · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 51, 61, 62, 85, 86 and 5 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 94-97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 5 sections: 84 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-43.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Con?

130 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 Con hard to play on drums?

43 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Con?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 51, 61, 62, 85, 86 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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