Tastes Like Kevin Bacon · Iwrestledabearonce

101 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16 and 18-25 -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
TASTES LIKE KEVIN BACON · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 2, 7, 42, 46, 54 and 99.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 11 sections: 73 keep time, 7 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-25.

CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCGOADJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tastes Like Kevin Bacon?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Tastes Like Kevin Bacon hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 17 sittings, about 23 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 Tastes Like Kevin Bacon?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 2, 7, 42, 46, 54 and 99.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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