Space Age Love Song · A Flock Of Seagulls

130 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PopElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-116, 118-120 and 122-124, and 1 more place -- 96.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 142 BPM
SPACE AGE LOVE SONG · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 117 and 129.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 117 · LANDS ON BAR 118 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 2 sections: 126 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-116.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Space Age Love Song?

142 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 Space Age Love Song hard to play on drums?

41 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 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.

How many fills are in Space Age Love Song?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 117 and 129.

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