Here In The Real World · Alan Jackson

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Country / FolkUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-77 -- 96.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 88 BPM
HERE IN THE REAL WORLD · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars: 77 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-77.

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

Questions

What BPM is Here In The Real World?

88 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 Here In The Real World hard to play on drums?

36 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

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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