City Hall · Tenacious D

181 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 8:03 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
8:03
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 71-78, 83-90 and 95-102, and 3 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
CITY HALL · BAR 71
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 8, 34, 69, 81, 93 and 5 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 158 · LANDS ON BAR 159
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 23 sections: 107 keep time, 11 are fills, 31 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 168-180.

PART F
PART I
OUTRO 2
13 groovesLFOMI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is City Hall?

90 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 City Hall hard to play on drums?

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 6 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 8:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid 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 City Hall?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 8, 34, 69, 81, 93 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Tenacious D drum parts

EVERY TENACIOUS D CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →