Safe and Sound · Capital Cities

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 22-36 and 38-44, and 4 more places -- 86.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 94 BPM
SAFE AND SOUND · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 6 sections: 85 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-61.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Safe and Sound?

94 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 Safe and Sound hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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