Twenty One Cars · BOLTCUTTER, Human Decomposition

101 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 32-34 and 37, and 10 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 143 BPM
TWENTY ONE CARS · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 27, 55, 67 and 5 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 12 sections: 65 keep time, 11 are fills, 11 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-51.

PART B
PART B
PART S4
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesRBAFABAM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Twenty One Cars?

143 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Twenty One Cars hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Twenty One Cars?

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 27, 55, 67 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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