Crashing Foreign Cars · Helmet

109 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 21 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 195 BPM
CRASHING FOREIGN CARS · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33 and 17 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 9 sections: 77 keep time and 23 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

PART C
CHORUS
PART E
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART S
OUTRO
6 groovesFBSCE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crashing Foreign Cars?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Crashing Foreign Cars hard to play on drums?

62 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Crashing Foreign Cars?

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 17, 21, 25, 29, 33 and 17 more.

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