Elephants · Them Crooked Vultures

318 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 7:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
318
LENGTH
7:14
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59, 61 and 65, and 53 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 176 BPM
ELEPHANTS · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 16, 24, 56, 57, 58, 64 and 27 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 56-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

318 bars across 19 sections: 190 keep time, 33 are fills, 73 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-95.

CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART T
CHORUS 4
9 groovesPTYEJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Elephants?

176 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 Elephants hard to play on drums?

62 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

318 bars, about 7:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Elephants?

11 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 16, 24, 56, 57, 58, 64 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 318 BARS ANALYSED
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