Down On The Street · Rage Against The Machine

114 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-25, 30-53 and 62-77, and 1 more place -- 74.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
DOWN ON THE STREET · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 9 sections: 105 keep time, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-25.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Down On The Street?

130 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 Down On The Street hard to play on drums?

45 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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