Kick Stones · Westside Cowboy

136 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-56, 58-68 and 70-72, and 2 more places -- 78% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 138 BPM
KICK STONES · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 7 sections: 127 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-72.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kick Stones?

138 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 Kick Stones hard to play on drums?

60 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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