Sin City · Genitorturers

121 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-33, 36 and 40, and 9 more places -- 69.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 148 BPM
SIN CITY · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 85, 89 and 97.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 11 sections: 73 keep time, 3 are fills, 21 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-84.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCS1KD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sin City?

148 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 Sin City hard to play on drums?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sin City?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 85, 89 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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