Twenty Flight Rock · Paul McCartney

127 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-50, 52 and 54-63, and 2 more places -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
TWENTY FLIGHT ROCK · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 14 sections: 110 keep time, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-101.

PART A
PART B
PART G
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
10 groovesIBHMA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Twenty Flight Rock?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Twenty Flight Rock hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

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