Kerosene · Crystal Castles

97 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

ElectronicAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 6-7 and 10-11, and 15 more places -- 41.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
KEROSENE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 4 sections: 88 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-73.

CHORUS
VERSE
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesCBS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kerosene?

125 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?

64 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?

97 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 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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