Some Like It Hot · The Power Station

16 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 0:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
16
LENGTH
0:32
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12-14 and 16 -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SOME LIKE IT HOT · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 6, 7, 11 and 15.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

16 bars: 12 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-5.

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

Questions

What BPM is Some Like It Hot?

120 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 Some Like It Hot hard to play on drums?

44 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

16 bars, about 0:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Some Like It Hot?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 6, 7, 11 and 15.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 16 BARS ANALYSED
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