Mediocrity Rules · Le Tigre

74 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 1:58 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
1:58
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 19-30 and 37-60, and 1 more place -- 68.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
MEDIOCRITY RULES · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 8 sections: 66 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-62.

CHORUS
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesABDES7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mediocrity Rules?

150 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 Mediocrity Rules hard to play on drums?

35 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 1:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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