Mic Check · Rage Against The Machine

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-44 and 69-84 -- 80% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 96 BPM
MIC CHECK · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 6 sections: 73 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-43.

CHORUS
PART C
PART C
BREAK 2
OUTRO
4 groovesACS5S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mic Check?

96 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 Mic Check hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:30 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, snare, 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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