Social Cues · Cage The Elephant

117 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-24, 42-64 and 82-100 -- 56% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
SOCIAL CUES · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 7 sections: 108 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-24.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Social Cues?

132 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 Social Cues hard to play on drums?

56 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?

117 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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