Trouble · Cage The Elephant

129 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-56, 86-96 and 105-128 -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 148 BPM
TROUBLE · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 13 sections: 108 keep time, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-23.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHBJEL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Trouble?

148 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 Trouble hard to play on drums?

35 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor 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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