Satan Is My Motor · Cake

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 8 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SATAN IS MY MOTOR · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 70 and 3 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 62-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 80-82 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 11 sections: 60 keep time, 9 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-45.

CHORUS
PART D
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART C
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCHDN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Satan Is My Motor?

100 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 Satan Is My Motor hard to play on drums?

60 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Satan Is My Motor?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 70 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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