Générique · Underground Canopy, Bluestaeb, S. Fidelity

121 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-15, 20 and 24-25, and 20 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 131 BPM
GÉNÉRIQUE · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 16 sections: 102 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-109.

PART A
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBDCAS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Générique?

131 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 Générique hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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