New Computers · Girlfriends

95 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 1:57 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
1:57
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-18, 21-22 and 25-26, and 6 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
NEW COMPUTERS · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 5 sections: 70 keep time, 6 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-54.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFIBS1CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is New Computers?

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

Is New Computers hard to play on drums?

56 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 1:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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