Kids from beyond the grave · číhos, macky a dave

51 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
51
LENGTH
1:42
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13 -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
KIDS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 25 times: bars 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 19 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 27-51 · PLAYED 25 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

51 bars across 4 sections: 11 keep time, 25 are fills and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
PART I
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesS4S3AIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kids from beyond the grave?

120 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 Kids from beyond the grave hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

51 bars, about 1:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Kids from beyond the grave?

1 fill to learn, played 25 times: bars 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 51 BARS ANALYSED
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