Kids · MGMT

151 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-58, 75-90 and 102, and 4 more places -- 69.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 123 BPM
KIDS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 107.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 107 · LANDS ON BAR 108
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 10 sections: 134 keep time, 1 is a fill, 4 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-58.

CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBAHFK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kids?

123 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 hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Kids?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 107.

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