Core · Toby Fox

93 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 2:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-37 and 54-77 -- 59.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 141 BPM
CORE · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 5 sections: 77 keep time and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-37.

PART S1
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Core?

141 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 Core hard to play on drums?

31 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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