No Cars Go · Arcade Fire

183 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 5:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-19, 26-28 and 30, and 7 more places -- 33.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 136 BPM
NO CARS GO · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 56, 71, 72, 80, 99 and 5 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 106-108 · LANDS ON BAR 109 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

183 bars across 13 sections: 140 keep time, 11 are fills, 2 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 132-175.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART S10
OUTRO
9 groovesCRBS10N+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Cars Go?

136 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 No Cars Go 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 No Cars Go?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 56, 71, 72, 80, 99 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED
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