American Kids · Kenny Chesney

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-42 and 49-57 -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
AMERICAN KIDS · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 4 sections: 60 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-64.

PART B
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHBCFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is American Kids?

85 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 American Kids hard to play on drums?

32 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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