small city · davi

41 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
41
LENGTH
1:22
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-34 -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SMALL CITY · BARS 23-24
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 6, 14 and 41.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 41
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

41 bars across 5 sections: 28 keep time, 3 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-33.

PART C
PART E
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHCFJEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is small city?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 small city hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

41 bars, about 1:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 small city?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 6, 14 and 41.

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