Pumped Up Kicks · Foster The People

123 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-5 and 7-9, and 26 more places -- 69.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
PUMPED UP KICKS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 3 sections: 119 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-97.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pumped Up Kicks?

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 Pumped Up Kicks hard to play on drums?

49 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 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.

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