elephant in the room · 6lack

169 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
19/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-20 and 41-45, and 5 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 9 sections: 116 keep time and 51 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-136.

PART A
BREAK
PART A
CHORUS
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDAS2S5S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is elephant in the room?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is elephant in the room hard to play on drums?

19 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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