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Street Fighting Man · The Rolling Stones

EXERCISE 6 OF 18
Groove F
72 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECIS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Street Fighting Man on drums

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

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-29, toms through bars 30-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-94.

The beat

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.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |----x-----x---x-|
Street Fighting Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 25-31 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-94 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED