It Was A Good Day (Footsteps in the Dark) · Ice Cube

27 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 1:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
27
LENGTH
1:19
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-9 and 11-17, and 1 more place -- 81.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 82 BPM
IT WAS A GOOD DAY (FOOTSTEPS IN THE DARK) · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

27 bars: 26 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-26.

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

Questions

What BPM is It Was A Good Day (Footsteps in the Dark)?

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 It Was A Good Day (Footsteps in the Dark) hard to play on drums?

43 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

27 bars, about 1:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

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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