Time Machine · Ride

144 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-50, 53-54 and 57-74, and 4 more places -- 54.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
TIME MACHINE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 6 sections: 136 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-79.

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

Questions

What BPM is Time Machine?

128 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 Time Machine hard to play on drums?

46 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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