Dashboard · Modest Mouse

139 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-37, 40-41 and 44-45, and 10 more places -- 48.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
DASHBOARD · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 10 sections: 130 keep time, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-49.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART D
6 groovesCBDS1S10+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dashboard?

145 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 Dashboard 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?

139 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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