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Big City Lights · NITRATE

Big City Lights · NITRATE
EXERCISE 3 OF 43
Groove P
57 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART Q
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesGEQSS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Big City Lights on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-70, ride through bars 71-75, hi-hat through bars 76-130 and kick and crashes through bars 131-132.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 17 and 19-21, and 16 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Big City Lights -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 10, 14, 44 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-55 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 86-119 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 116-131 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Big City Lights?

122 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 Big City Lights hard to play on drums?

51 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Big City Lights?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 10, 14, 44 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED