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Twenty One Cars · BOLTCUTTER, Human Decomposition

Twenty One Cars · BOLTCUTTER, Human Decomposition
EXERCISE 22 OF 51
Groove U
55 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Twenty One Cars on drums

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.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
67/100

ride through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-24 and snare through bars 25-27, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    28
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Twenty One Cars -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-28 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 51-67 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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