Trip Switch · Nothing But Thieves

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 34-36, and 7 more places -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
TRIP SWITCH · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 33, 53, 57, 59, 61 and 1 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 6 sections: 48 keep time, 7 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Trip Switch?

90 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 Trip Switch hard to play on drums?

55 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Trip Switch?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 33, 53, 57, 59, 61 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED
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