Telephones · Vacations

61 bars, 3:15, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

PopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 27-41 and 51-58 -- 59.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
TELEPHONES · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 25, 26, 42, 59 and 60.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 6 sections: 45 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-41.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Telephones?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Telephones hard to play on drums?

52 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Telephones?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 25, 26, 42, 59 and 60.

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