Driver's Seat · Sniff 'n' The Tears

132 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-20, 26-30 and 36-40, and 5 more places -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 134 BPM
DRIVER'S SEAT · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 131 and 132.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 131-132 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 18 sections: 109 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-80.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 5
PART H
PART F
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEFHACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Driver's Seat?

134 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 Driver's Seat hard to play on drums?

61 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Driver's Seat?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 131 and 132.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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