Take You On A Cruise · Interpol

140 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20, 28 and 64-78 -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
TAKE YOU ON A CRUISE · BARS 64-65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 57 and 139.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 12 sections: 88 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-29.

COUNT-IN
PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
PART D
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
VERSE
10 groovesHGQBD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take You On A Cruise?

120 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 Take You On A Cruise hard to play on drums?

59 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 11 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Take You On A Cruise?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 57 and 139.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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