Guitar Town · Steve

163 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 163 BPM, 2:28 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 28 and 32, and 4 more places -- 69.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 163 BPM
GUITAR TOWN · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 15, 94, 95 and 134.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 163 BPM
BARS 94-95 · LANDS ON BAR 96 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 134 · LANDS ON BAR 135
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 8 sections: 134 keep time, 4 are fills, 8 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-62.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
7 groovesEDAS6H+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Guitar Town?

163 BPM, in 2/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Guitar Town hard to play on drums?

48 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Guitar Town?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 15, 94, 95 and 134.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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