oh baby · LCD Soundsystem

242 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
242
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-31, 33 and 35, and 85 more places -- 56.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
OH BABY · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

242 bars across 3 sections: 236 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-173.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is oh baby?

170 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 oh baby hard to play on drums?

46 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

242 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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