Elevation · U2

166 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 6:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
6:02
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 37-43 and 63-78, and 3 more places -- 48.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
ELEVATION · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 32, 62, 108 and 150.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 13 sections: 143 keep time, 5 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-89.

CHORUS
PART C
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
PART A
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Elevation?

110 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 Elevation hard to play on drums?

49 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 6:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Elevation?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 32, 62, 108 and 150.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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