Big City Lights · NITRATE

132 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 17 and 19-21, and 16 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BIG CITY LIGHTS · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 10, 14, 44 and 18 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 4-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 12 sections: 75 keep time, 25 are fills, 12 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-41.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART Q
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesGEQSS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Big City Lights?

122 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 Big City Lights 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 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 Big City Lights?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 10, 14, 44 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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