In The City · Joe Walsh

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-29, 52-54 and 56-58, and 4 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 82 BPM
IN THE CITY · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 2, 30, 31, 32, 44, 75 and 2 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 30-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 75-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 6 sections: 64 keep time, 8 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-74.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFDCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The City?

82 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 In The City hard to play on drums?

52 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 In The City?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 2, 30, 31, 32, 44, 75 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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