Elephant Stone · The Stone Roses

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 32 and 40, and 10 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 104 BPM
ELEPHANT STONE · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 65 and 66.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 65-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 7 sections: 79 keep time, 3 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-30.

VERSE
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesICFPS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Elephant Stone?

104 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 Elephant Stone hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 12 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Elephant Stone?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 65 and 66.

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