Sinking Town · Yoeko Kurahashi

91 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 31-33, and 7 more places -- 37% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SINKING TOWN · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 13 sections: 60 keep time, 3 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-80.

CHORUS
PART B
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART S10
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
7 groovesDHBIS10+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sinking Town?

125 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 Sinking Town hard to play on drums?

53 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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