Pumped Up Kicks · 3teeth

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 4:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 49-51, and 11 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 91 BPM
PUMPED UP KICKS · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 5 sections: 87 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-78.

VERSE
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBGHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pumped Up Kicks?

91 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 Pumped Up Kicks hard to play on drums?

61 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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