Talk Shows On Mute · Incubus

105 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 5 more places -- 23.5% 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
TALK SHOWS ON MUTE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 7 sections: 93 keep time, 1 is a fill and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-64.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Talk Shows On Mute?

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 Talk Shows On Mute hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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