Maps · Yeah Yeah Yeahs

96 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-28, 41-48 and 50-56, and 2 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 117 BPM
MAPS · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 9 sections: 81 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Maps?

117 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 Maps hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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