Tank! Cowboy Bebop · Seatbelts

118 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51, 53-54 and 63-65, and 9 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 137 BPM
TANK! COWBOY BEBOP · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 35, 36, 44, 45, 46, 50 and 22 more.

LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 44-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 137 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 137 BPM
BARS 55-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 9 sections: 75 keep time, 28 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-25.

PART F
PART I
PART O
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesTFIOC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tank! Cowboy Bebop?

137 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 Tank! Cowboy Bebop hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

How many fills are in Tank! Cowboy Bebop?

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 35, 36, 44, 45, 46, 50 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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