Everybody Wants To Rule The World · Tears For Fears

118 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 165 BPM, 4:16 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-26 and 28-30, and 5 more places -- 83.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 165 BPM
EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 4 sections: 75 keep time and 39 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-78.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDS4BS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Everybody Wants To Rule The World?

165 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Everybody Wants To Rule The World hard to play on drums?

55 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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