Dead End Cruisin' · The Bones

21 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 0:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
21
LENGTH
0:50
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 6-8 and 11-17 -- 57.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
DEAD END CRUISIN' · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

21 bars: 17 keep time and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-17.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead End Cruisin'?

100 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 Dead End Cruisin' hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

21 bars, about 0:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 3 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 21 BARS ANALYSED
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