Time Is Tight · T Booker

110 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-32 and 41-53, and 4 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 136 BPM
TIME IS TIGHT · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 34, 36, 38, 40, 70, 72 and 4 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 110
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 9 sections: 88 keep time, 10 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 80-97.

PART C
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDJFCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Time Is Tight?

136 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 Time Is Tight hard to play on drums?

46 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.

How many fills are in Time Is Tight?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 34, 36, 38, 40, 70, 72 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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