Street Fighting Man · The Rolling Stones

94 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22 and 24, and 16 more places -- 37.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
STREET FIGHTING MAN · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 9 sections: 81 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-94.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECIS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Street Fighting Man?

128 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 Street Fighting Man hard to play on drums?

46 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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