Tidal Waves Breakfast Lunch Dinner · Dance Gavin Dance

88 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 3:23 of playing on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Progressive150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 2 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
TIDAL WAVES BREAKFAST LUNCH DINNER · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 17, 24, 26, 27, 28, 44 and 5 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 26-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 9 sections: 37 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART M
BREAK
7 groovesS9ACMG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tidal Waves Breakfast Lunch Dinner?

150 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Tidal Waves Breakfast Lunch Dinner 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Tidal Waves Breakfast Lunch Dinner?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 17, 24, 26, 27, 28, 44 and 5 more.

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