Kyoto · Phoebe Bridgers

96 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19 and 47-62 -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
KYOTO · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 63, 81, 85, 89, 93 and 2 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 7 sections: 79 keep time, 8 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-62.

CHORUS
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEFGAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kyoto?

130 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 Kyoto 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 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Kyoto?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 63, 81, 85, 89, 93 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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