People Of The Sun · Rage Against The Machine

58 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 2:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 41-47 and 51-57 -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
PEOPLE OF THE SUN · BAR 21
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 28, 48 and 58.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 6 sections: 45 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is People Of The Sun?

92 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 People Of The Sun hard to play on drums?

59 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in People Of The Sun?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 28, 48 and 58.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 58 BARS ANALYSED
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