Oldies Station · Twenty One Pilots

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 2:49 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaePop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 19 more places -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 101 BPM
OLDIES STATION · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 6 sections: 60 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-68.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
5 groovesCDS1HS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Oldies Station?

101 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 Oldies Station hard to play on drums?

33 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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