Geronimo's Cadillac · Modern Talking

46 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 1:39 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
46
LENGTH
1:39
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 12 and 14, and 6 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
GERONIMO'S CADILLAC · BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

46 bars across 6 sections: 40 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-21.

VERSE
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
6 groovesDCIBS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Geronimo's Cadillac?

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 Geronimo's Cadillac hard to play on drums?

48 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

46 bars, about 1:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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