Bart 'n' Frink · Simpsons Hit & Run

54 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 2:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 18-24 and 26-28 -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BART 'N' FRINK · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 16, 17, 25, 29, 33 and 6 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 6 sections: 36 keep time and 12 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

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

Questions

What BPM is Bart 'n' Frink?

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 Bart 'n' Frink hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Bart 'n' Frink?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 16, 17, 25, 29, 33 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 54 BARS ANALYSED
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