The model · Big Black

79 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-24 and 36-45 -- 43% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
THE MODEL · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 5 sections: 71 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The model?

125 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 model hard to play on drums?

47 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 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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