Mad World · Tears For Fears

109 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on snare, high tom, mid tom and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-53 and 73-80 -- 58.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MAD WORLD · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 6 sections: 99 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-53.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesBCS6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mad World?

120 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 Mad World hard to play on drums?

39 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, high tom, mid tom and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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