What is hip? · Tower Of Power

132 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 18 and 20-21, and 5 more places -- 80.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
WHAT IS HIP? · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 22, 26, 107, 108, 115, 116 and 11 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 107-108 · LANDS ON BAR 109 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 115-116 · LANDS ON BAR 117 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 2 sections: 112 keep time, 17 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-106.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What is hip??

100 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 What is hip? hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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 What is hip??

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 22, 26, 107, 108, 115, 116 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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