Hot Child In The City · Nick Gilder

96 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 11 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 112 BPM
HOT CHILD IN THE CITY · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 13, 37, 69, 70 and 91.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 69-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 7 sections: 79 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-59.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECJRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hot Child In The City?

112 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 Hot Child In The City hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Hot Child In The City?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 13, 37, 69, 70 and 91.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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