Tokyo Ghetto · Eve

139 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-45, 47-54 and 79-93, and 1 more place -- 43.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
TOKYO GHETTO · BAR 40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 46, 78 and 94.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 16 sections: 104 keep time, 3 are fills, 6 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-135.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
8 groovesECJBS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tokyo Ghetto?

140 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 Tokyo Ghetto hard to play on drums?

40 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Tokyo Ghetto?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 46, 78 and 94.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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