Takin' It To The Streets · The Doobie Brothers

127 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-32, 41-64 and 72-95, and 1 more place -- 69% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 134 BPM
TAKIN' IT TO THE STREETS · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 9 sections: 115 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-31.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Takin' It To The Streets?

134 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 Takin' It To The Streets hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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