Metaverse · Cage The Elephant

78 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 2:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-25, 27-41 and 43-62 -- 76.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 144 BPM
METAVERSE · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 42, 70 and 78.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 2 sections: 73 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-41.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Metaverse?

144 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 Metaverse hard to play on drums?

50 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Metaverse?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 42, 70 and 78.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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