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Athens, France · Black Country, New Road

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove Y -- Chorus
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0 / 37 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
PART Q
PART S
PART S4
PART W
CHORUS
PART S
PART S8
9 groovesYBSQS8+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Athens, France on drums

149 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-36, snare through bars 37-55, kick and crashes through bars 56-57, silence through bars 58-64, ride through bars 65-110 and snare through bars 111-126, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 75-90, 92-93 and 95-98, and 2 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    75
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |--------x-------|
Athens, France -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 15, 16, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- Y, B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-48 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 55-72 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part W and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-137 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part S8 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Athens, France?

120 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 Athens, France hard to play on drums?

52 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 Athens, France?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 15, 16, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED