The Ghetto · George Benson - Weekend in London

169 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 6:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
6:02
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 20 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 112 BPM
THE GHETTO · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 10, 24, 26 and 38 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 21 sections: 94 keep time, 44 are fills, 5 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-56.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
14 groovesEFAUAAAI+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Ghetto?

112 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 Ghetto hard to play on drums?

58 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 6:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Ghetto?

16 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 10, 24, 26 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →