Over My Head Cable Car · A Day To Remember

109 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 33-34, and 6 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
OVER MY HEAD CABLE CAR · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 18, 22, 26, 42, 46 and 11 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 11 sections: 68 keep time, 17 are fills, 5 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-14.

PART A
CHORUS
PART C
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART D
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIRAMS9+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Over My Head Cable Car?

130 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 Over My Head Cable Car hard to play on drums?

51 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Over My Head Cable Car?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 18, 22, 26, 42, 46 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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