Cult Of Personality · Living Colour

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 13-16 and 19-20, and 7 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 92 BPM
CULT OF PERSONALITY · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 9, 36, 40, 65, 70 and 14 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 14 sections: 73 keep time, 20 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-56.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART C
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFCLDG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cult Of Personality?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Cult Of Personality hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Cult Of Personality?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 9, 36, 40, 65, 70 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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