The Great Golden Baby (Circa Survive) · Sirca Curvive

155 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 139 BPM, 3:45 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 13 more places -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 139 BPM
THE GREAT GOLDEN BABY (CIRCA SURVIVE) · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 64, 80, 88 and 3 more.

LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 9 sections: 100 keep time, 9 are fills, 39 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-112.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAFACXQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Great Golden Baby (Circa Survive)?

139 BPM, in 3/4, 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 The Great Golden Baby (Circa Survive) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Great Golden Baby (Circa Survive)?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 64, 80, 88 and 3 more.

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