Cradle Of Love · Billy Idol

165 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-76, 92-94 and 96-98, and 5 more places -- 84.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 144 BPM
CRADLE OF LOVE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 3 sections: 159 keep time and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-76.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cradle Of Love?

144 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 Cradle Of Love hard to play on drums?

48 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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