Vertigo · U2

108 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-22, 24 and 26, and 13 more places -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
VERTIGO · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 7 sections: 99 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-56.

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

Questions

What BPM is Vertigo?

140 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 Vertigo hard to play on drums?

34 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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