Nite Klub · The Specials

11 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 0:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
11
LENGTH
0:27
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
NITE KLUB · BAR 4
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

11 bars across 2 sections: 10 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-11.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nite Klub?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Nite Klub hard to play on drums?

53 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

11 bars, about 0:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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