Pumped Up Kicks (Official) · Foster The People

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

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 4-5 and 8-9, and 26 more places -- 49.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
PUMPED UP KICKS (OFFICIAL) · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 3 sections: 116 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-98.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pumped Up Kicks (Official)?

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 (Official) hard to play on drums?

54 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 33 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 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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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