Telescope · Cage The Elephant

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-27 and 41-44, and 4 more places -- 56.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
TELESCOPE · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 7 sections: 72 keep time and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-87.

COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDAHS1JFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Telescope?

95 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 Telescope hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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