Lady Cab Driver · prince

243 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 7:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
243
LENGTH
7:53
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18 and 20, and 57 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 123 BPM
LADY CAB DRIVER · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 241, 242 and 243.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 241-243 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

243 bars across 20 sections: 213 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 166-198.

PART B
PART B
PART O
PART S
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART F
9 groovesDBSFO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lady Cab Driver?

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 Lady Cab Driver hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

243 bars, about 7:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Lady Cab Driver?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 241, 242 and 243.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 243 BARS ANALYSED
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