Lost In The Supermarket · The Clash

136 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PunkRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 41-47 and 81-87, and 5 more places -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 148 BPM
LOST IN THE SUPERMARKET · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 11 sections: 121 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-104.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART Q
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFHBEQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lost In The Supermarket?

148 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 Lost In The Supermarket hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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.

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