Neon Pill · Cage The Elephant

96 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-15, 19-21 and 23-25, and 9 more places -- 62.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 121 BPM
NEON PILL · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 95 and 96.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BARS 95-96 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 5 sections: 89 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-59.

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

Questions

What BPM is Neon Pill?

121 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 Neon Pill 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Neon Pill?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 95 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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