Nutbush City Limits · Tina Turner

134 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 6-7 and 9, and 21 more places -- 36.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
NUTBUSH CITY LIMITS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 12, 14, 16, 20, 28 and 27 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 14 sections: 84 keep time and 33 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-59.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART B
CHORUS 5
PART A
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nutbush City Limits?

130 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?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

134 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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?

6 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 12, 14, 16, 20, 28 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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