Her Town Too · James Taylor

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 4:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-63 and 66-114 -- 96.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 97 BPM
HER TOWN TOO · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars: 110 keep time, 1 is a fill and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-63.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Her Town Too?

97 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 Her Town Too hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Her Town Too?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

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