Edge of Town · Middle Kids

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 37-39, and 5 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 105 BPM
EDGE OF TOWN · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 36, 40, 44 and 7 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 10 sections: 53 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesERBS1S8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Edge of Town?

105 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 Edge of Town 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Edge of Town?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 36, 40, 44 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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