Phone Call · BLackpuppets

49 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
49
LENGTH
1:38
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-49 -- 97.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
PHONE CALL · BAR 8
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

49 bars across 2 sections: 45 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-49.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Phone Call?

120 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 Phone Call hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

49 bars, about 1:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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