Connection · Elastica

69 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 2:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 33-48 and 57-59, and 1 more place -- 64.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 122 BPM
CONNECTION · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 52, 60 and 68.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 5 sections: 55 keep time, 4 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-48.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Connection?

122 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 Connection hard to play on drums?

45 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 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 Connection?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 52, 60 and 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED
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