Brand New City V2 · Mitski

41 bars, 2:07, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
41
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-20, 34-36 and 38-40 -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BRAND NEW CITY V2 · BARS 14-15
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 2 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 41

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

41 bars across 6 sections: 26 keep time, 8 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-20.

CHORUS
BREAK
PART E
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBGES2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Brand New City V2?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Brand New City V2 hard to play on drums?

50 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

41 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Brand New City V2?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 41 BARS ANALYSED
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