For The Damaged Coda · Blonde Redhead

75 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 2:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 26 and 28, and 2 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 141 BPM
FOR THE DAMAGED CODA · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 49 and 50.

LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 141 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 7 sections: 41 keep time, 3 are fills, 4 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-75.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesS1BJCIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is For The Damaged Coda?

141 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 For The Damaged Coda hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 For The Damaged Coda?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 49 and 50.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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