Minus Celsius · Backyard Babies

135 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 12 and 16, and 15 more places -- 64.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
MINUS CELSIUS · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 39, 79 and 119.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 3 sections: 123 keep time, 3 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-78.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Minus Celsius?

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 Minus Celsius hard to play on drums?

54 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?

135 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Minus Celsius?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 39, 79 and 119.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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