The Idiot Kings · Soul Coughing

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 25-31 and 33-47, and 5 more places -- 70.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 108 BPM
THE IDIOT KINGS · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 102, 103 and 104.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 102-104 · LANDS ON BAR 105 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 7 sections: 87 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-68.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFCS1DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Idiot Kings?

108 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 The Idiot Kings hard to play on drums?

60 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Idiot Kings?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 102, 103 and 104.

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