Boys in Town · Divinyis

111 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-24 and 31, and 12 more places -- 41.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 161 BPM
BOYS IN TOWN · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 8, 56, 64, 72, 80 and 5 more.

LOOP · 161 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 161 BPM
BARS 103-104 · LANDS ON BAR 105 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 12 sections: 76 keep time, 11 are fills, 12 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-47.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDFOAJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Boys in Town?

161 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Boys in Town 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Boys in Town?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 8, 56, 64, 72, 80 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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