Motion Sickness · Phoebe Bridgers

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 19-32 and 39-50 -- 42% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 107 BPM
MOTION SICKNESS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 5 sections: 94 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-61.

CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Motion Sickness?

107 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 Motion Sickness hard to play on drums?

48 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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