Meet Me On The Corner · Lindisfarne

59 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 2:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Country / FolkRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-15 and 19-30 -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
MEET ME ON THE CORNER · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 3 and 59.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 5 sections: 52 keep time, 2 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-30.

CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGEFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Meet Me On The Corner?

95 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 Meet Me On The Corner hard to play on drums?

37 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 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.

How many fills are in Meet Me On The Corner?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 3 and 59.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 59 BARS ANALYSED
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