Las Vegas · Mathieu Boogaerts

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 3:06 of playing, on snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-13, 15-23 and 25-32, and 4 more places -- 90.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 83 BPM
LAS VEGAS · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 2 sections: 64 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-65.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Las Vegas?

83 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 Las Vegas hard to play on drums?

31 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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