Signos · Soda Stereo

164 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-45, 50-93 and 102-163 -- 89.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SIGNOS · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 8 sections: 109 keep time, 44 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-29.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECS2FS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Signos?

125 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 Signos hard to play on drums?

32 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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