Big City Nights · Scorpions

142 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-24, and 14 more places -- 77.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BIG CITY NIGHTS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 13 and 89.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 8 sections: 129 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-74.

CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
7 groovesFBS1S2S4+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Big City Nights?

140 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 Nights hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Nights?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 13 and 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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