Mean Street · Van Halen

112 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 11-16 and 27-32, and 1 more place -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 134 BPM
MEAN STREET · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 20, 21, 24 and 11 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 14 sections: 72 keep time, 17 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-112.

VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART T
VERSE 3
CHORUS 3
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEJAIZT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mean Street?

134 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 Mean Street hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Mean Street?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 20, 21, 24 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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