No Sleep Till Brooklyn · Beastie Boys

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-20, 28-34 and 36, and 2 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 97 BPM
NO SLEEP TILL BROOKLYN · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 69.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 14 sections: 83 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-95.

CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
CHORUS 3
VERSE 4
PART F
VERSE 5
OUTRO
7 groovesDCIFB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is No Sleep Till Brooklyn?

97 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 No Sleep Till Brooklyn hard to play on drums?

63 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in No Sleep Till Brooklyn?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 69.

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