Detroit · Gorillaz

11 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 0:21 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
11
LENGTH
0:21
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4 and 8-9 -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
DETROIT · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

11 bars: 11 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Detroit?

125 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 Detroit hard to play on drums?

49 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

11 bars, about 0:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 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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