Expensive Conversations in Cheap Motels · Chiodos

105 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 7 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
EXPENSIVE CONVERSATIONS IN CHEAP MOTELS · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 29, 30, 50 and 9 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 12 sections: 73 keep time, 15 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-41.

CHORUS
PART J
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART R
OUTRO
8 groovesEBRJC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Expensive Conversations in Cheap Motels?

128 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 Expensive Conversations in Cheap Motels 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Expensive Conversations in Cheap Motels?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 29, 30, 50 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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