Detroit Rock City (Double Platinum) · KISS

160 bars at 181 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockHip Hop / Reggae150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 30 more places -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 181 BPM
DETROIT ROCK CITY (DOUBLE PLATINUM) · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 42, 60, 79, 97, 99, 104 and 9 more.

LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
LOOP · 181 BPM
BARS 104-105 · LANDS ON BAR 106 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 12 sections: 120 keep time, 15 are fills, 7 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 133-150.

PART C
PART B
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesEGRBJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Detroit Rock City (Double Platinum)?

181 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Detroit Rock City (Double Platinum) hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Detroit Rock City (Double Platinum)?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 42, 60, 79, 97, 99, 104 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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