Kerosene · Big Black

154 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 5:51 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-120 and 123-154 -- 99.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
KEROSENE · BAR 9
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 2 sections: 145 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-121.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kerosene?

105 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 Kerosene hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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