Street Spirit · Harakiri For The Sky

145 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-43, 45-51 and 53, and 10 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
STREET SPIRIT · BARS 37-38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 36, 52, 68, 76, 96, 112 and 3 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 14 sections: 100 keep time, 9 are fills, 7 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-145.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO 2
10 groovesIMOES1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Street Spirit?

130 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 Spirit hard to play on drums?

45 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Street Spirit?

9 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 36, 52, 68, 76, 96, 112 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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