Fight For Your Right To Party · Beastie Boys

113 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-13, 16-17 and 20-21, and 14 more places -- 45.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 134 BPM
FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO PARTY · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 61 and 101.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 5 sections: 67 keep time, 2 are fills, 36 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-97.

CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fight For Your Right To Party?

134 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 Fight For Your Right To Party hard to play on drums?

47 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Fight For Your Right To Party?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 61 and 101.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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