Living In America · James Brown

169 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 5:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
5:56
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-20, and 10 more places -- 78.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 114 BPM
LIVING IN AMERICA · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 5 and 25.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 13 sections: 153 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-160.

CHORUS
VERSE
VERSE 2
VERSE 4
VERSE 5
3 groovesDBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Living In America?

114 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 Living In America hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 5:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Living In America?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 5 and 25.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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