Hey Kids! · The Oral Cigarettes

52 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 1:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
52
LENGTH
1:28
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 21-23, and 4 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 142 BPM
HEY KIDS! · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 11 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

52 bars across 3 sections: 25 keep time, 17 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-19.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hey Kids!?

142 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 Hey Kids! hard to play on drums?

62 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

52 bars, about 1:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hey Kids!?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 52 BARS ANALYSED
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