Nutbush City Limits · Beth Hart And Joe Bonamassa

110 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockFunk / Soul150 BPM and up
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-38, 43-54 and 59-73, and 3 more places -- 67% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 153 BPM
NUTBUSH CITY LIMITS · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 26.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 3 sections: 82 keep time, 1 is a fill, 16 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-25.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nutbush City Limits?

153 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 Nutbush City Limits hard to play on drums?

48 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Nutbush City Limits?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 26.

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