New York Minute · Missing Link

90 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:06 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-14, 17-19 and 21-22, and 7 more places -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
NEW YORK MINUTE · BARS 11-12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 20, 24, 32 and 10 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 10 sections: 56 keep time, 16 are fills, 6 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-90.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART K
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEKOS2GFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is New York Minute?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is New York Minute hard to play on drums?

55 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in New York Minute?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 20, 24, 32 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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