8 Mile · Eminem

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:23 of playing, on crash, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Hip Hop / ReggaePop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-120 -- 99.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
8 MILE · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars: 120 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-120.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 8 Mile?

90 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 8 Mile hard to play on drums?

43 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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