N Side · Steve Lacy

112 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 9-21 and 23-31, and 10 more places -- 89.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
N SIDE · BARS 1-2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars: 112 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-112.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is N Side?

120 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 N Side hard to play on drums?

39 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. 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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