Shakedown Street · Grateful Dead

48 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 1:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
48
LENGTH
1:45
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 3 more places -- 87.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
SHAKEDOWN STREET · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

48 bars: 48 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-48.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shakedown Street?

110 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 Shakedown Street hard to play on drums?

51 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

48 bars, about 1:45 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, 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.

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