Natural Causes · Switchfoot

177 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 49-51, and 15 more places -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
NATURAL CAUSES · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 40, 56, 75, 76, 78, 88 and 17 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 75-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 12 sections: 103 keep time, 23 are fills, 22 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-28.

PART D
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJDRS10A+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Natural Causes?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Natural Causes hard to play on drums?

41 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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.

How many fills are in Natural Causes?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 40, 56, 75, 76, 78, 88 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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