Tick Tock · Black Lightning

116 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
19/100
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 11 sections: 68 keep time, 34 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-20.

CHORUS
OUTRO
9 groovesAS2S4S7S9+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tick Tock?

130 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 Tick Tock hard to play on drums?

19 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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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