The City Sleeps · MC 900 Ft Jesus

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:19 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicHip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-9, 11 and 13, and 23 more places -- 43.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
THE CITY SLEEPS · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 10 sections: 102 keep time, 1 is a fill and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-31.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFHCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The City Sleeps?

88 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 The City Sleeps 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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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