Closing Time · Semisonic

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 29-31, and 5 more places -- 31.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 92 BPM
CLOSING TIME · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 12, 28, 32, 36, 46 and 8 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 7 sections: 54 keep time, 14 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-27.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFQJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Closing Time?

92 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 Closing Time hard to play on drums?

54 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Closing Time?

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 12, 28, 32, 36, 46 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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