Pompeii · Bastille

25 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 0:47 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
25
LENGTH
0:47
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-18 -- 53.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
POMPEII · BAR 11
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

25 bars across 3 sections: 13 keep time and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-19.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
VERSE
3 groovesBS1DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pompeii?

128 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 Pompeii hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

25 bars, about 0:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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