Street Life · Beenie Man

44 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 1:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
44
LENGTH
1:57
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 13-29 and 31, and 3 more places -- 87.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
STREET LIFE · BARS 5-6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

44 bars across 2 sections: 40 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-44.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Street Life?

90 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 Life hard to play on drums?

52 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

44 bars, about 1:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 44 BARS ANALYSED
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