Letting The Cables Sleep · Bush

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 41-48 and 53-56, and 6 more places -- 47.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
LETTING THE CABLES SLEEP · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 12 sections: 87 keep time, 4 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBCFS1S7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Letting The Cables Sleep?

100 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 Letting The Cables Sleep hard to play on drums?

40 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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