Red Hill Mining Town - accurate · U2

163 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-46, 52-56 and 77-86, and 2 more places -- 51.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
RED HILL MINING TOWN - ACCURATE · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 11 sections: 137 keep time, 1 is a stop and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-162.

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

Questions

What BPM is Red Hill Mining Town - accurate?

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 Red Hill Mining Town - accurate hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 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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