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Brand New City · Mitski

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 24 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART C
BREAK
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEGCKH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brand New City on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 2:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-9, silence through bars 10-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-78.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-23, 41-45 and 48-53 -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---o---o---|
SD |x---------------|
BD |--------x---x---|
Brand New City -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, G, C -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-23 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-66 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-65 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Brand New City?

148 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 Brand New City hard to play on drums?

47 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED