Cut Your Hair · Pavement

83 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7, 14 and 20-25, and 6 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 114 BPM
CUT YOUR HAIR · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 50, 51, 52, 53, 54 and 55.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 50-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 11 sections: 59 keep time, 6 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-79.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDCBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cut Your Hair?

114 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 Cut Your Hair hard to play on drums?

42 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Cut Your Hair?

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 50, 51, 52, 53, 54 and 55.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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