The Great Divide · Noah Kahan

177 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 4:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-50, 52-54 and 56-58, and 12 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 161 BPM
THE GREAT DIVIDE · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 19 sections: 131 keep time, 10 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-70.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesHADBL+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Great Divide?

161 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Great Divide hard to play on drums?

37 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 1 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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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