Too Late to Call an Ambulance · Psychonaut 4

177 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42, 44-46 and 48-50, and 18 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 118 BPM
TOO LATE TO CALL AN AMBULANCE · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 6 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 13 sections: 147 keep time, 12 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-145.

PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGBSQE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Too Late to Call an Ambulance?

118 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 Too Late to Call an Ambulance hard to play on drums?

57 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 5:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Too Late to Call an Ambulance?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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