Allentown · Billy Joel

104 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 9-25 and 27, and 9 more places -- 57.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ALLENTOWN · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 28, 31, 45, 60, 65 and 8 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 10 sections: 78 keep time, 14 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-25.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
5 groovesDMJCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Allentown?

120 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 Allentown hard to play on drums?

51 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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.

How many fills are in Allentown?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 28, 31, 45, 60, 65 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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