Nice Time · Pepper

98 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Hip Hop / Reggae120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 8 more places -- 36.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
NICE TIME · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 41, 56, 57 and 6 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 56-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 6 sections: 77 keep time, 12 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

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

Questions

What BPM is Nice Time?

145 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 Time hard to play on drums?

51 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Nice Time?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 41, 56, 57 and 6 more.

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