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Bright Lights Bigger City · Ceelo Green

EXERCISE 16 OF 19
Run A1 · Part A (bars 77-80)
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0 / 19 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCS1AJS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bright Lights Bigger City on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-72, snare through bars 73-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 7 more places -- 79.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 48, 64 and 80.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- C -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 8-81 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Bright Lights Bigger City?

109 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 Bright Lights Bigger City hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 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.

How many fills are in Bright Lights Bigger City?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 48, 64 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED