Volcano · U2

104 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-23, 37-54 and 80-87 -- 46.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 136 BPM
VOLCANO · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 55.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 7 sections: 95 keep time, 2 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Volcano?

136 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 Volcano hard to play on drums?

47 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Volcano?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 55.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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