Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales · Car Seat Headrest

180 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 6:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-81, 98-112 and 132-138, and 6 more places -- 57.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 117 BPM
DRUNK DRIVERS/KILLER WHALES · BAR 135
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 33, 113, 128, 129, 130, 131 and 9 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 113 · LANDS ON BAR 114
LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 128-131 · LANDS ON BAR 132 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 139 · LANDS ON BAR 140 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 10 sections: 80 keep time, 15 are fills, 24 are stops and 58 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-32.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART S3
PART B
CHORUS
PART S6
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEBS9S1S3+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales?

117 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 Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales hard to play on drums?

45 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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.

How many fills are in Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 33, 113, 128, 129, 130, 131 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
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