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Social Cues · Cage The Elephant

EXERCISE 4 OF 11
Groove C
113 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Social Cues on drums

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

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 2-25, ride through bars 26-41, hi-hat through bars 42-65, ride through bars 66-81, hi-hat through bars 82-101 and ride through bars 102-117.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Social Cues -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED