Cleanin' Out My Closet · Eminem

191 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 5:08 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 44 more places -- 75.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 149 BPM
CLEANIN' OUT MY CLOSET · BARS 5-6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 2 sections: 187 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-191.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cleanin' Out My Closet?

149 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 Cleanin' Out My Closet hard to play on drums?

40 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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