Loaded · Primal Scream

150 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 6:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
6:30
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-62 and 69-71, and 1 more place -- 90.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 92 BPM
LOADED · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 5 sections: 137 keep time and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-150.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
4 groovesCES1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Loaded?

92 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 Loaded hard to play on drums?

47 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 6:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 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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