Nice Shoes · Steve Lacy

12 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 0:21 of playing, on snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
12
LENGTH
0:21
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-5, 7 and 9, and 1 more place -- 75% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 135 BPM
NICE SHOES · BARS 1-2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 12.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 12
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

12 bars: 11 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

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

Questions

What BPM is Nice Shoes?

135 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 Nice Shoes hard to play on drums?

32 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

12 bars, about 0:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, floor tom 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.

How many fills are in Nice Shoes?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 12.

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