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Chinatown · Jets To Brazil

Chinatown · Jets To Brazil
EXERCISE 4 OF 29
Fill at bar 32, 40, 64 and 4 more (a small one)
118 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDLS1IFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chinatown on drums

169 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, snare through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-64, snare through bars 65-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-112, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-31, 41-63 and 89-111 -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 32, 40, 64, 68, 80, 112 and 7 more.

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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 37-129 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Chinatown?

130 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 Chinatown 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Chinatown?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 32, 40, 64, 68, 80, 112 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED