New Shoes · Paolo Nutini

118 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieFunk / Soul150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-18, 21-43 and 45-52, and 6 more places -- 73.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
NEW SHOES · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 79, 80, 81, 82, 89 and 90.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 79-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 89-90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 4 sections: 102 keep time, 8 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-52.

CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
3 groovesCALFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is New Shoes?

150 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 New Shoes hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in New Shoes?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 79, 80, 81, 82, 89 and 90.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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