Sun City Creeps · Woods

180 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
5:59
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-37, 46-77 and 110 -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SUN CITY CREEPS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 38, 39, 78, 79, 81, 83 and 2 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 83-84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 141 · LANDS ON BAR 142
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 7 sections: 161 keep time, 8 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-77.

CHORUS
PART N
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBRNMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sun City Creeps?

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 Sun City Creeps hard to play on drums?

53 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 5:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Sun City Creeps?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 38, 39, 78, 79, 81, 83 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
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