Cigarettes in The Theatre · Two Door Cinema Club

144 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 25 more places -- 44.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 169 BPM
CIGARETTES IN THE THEATRE · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 48, 116, 124, 128, 141, 142 and 1 more.

LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BARS 141-142 · LANDS ON BAR 143 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 144
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 10 sections: 115 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-95.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCEBS1J+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cigarettes in The Theatre?

169 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Cigarettes in The Theatre hard to play on drums?

45 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Cigarettes in The Theatre?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 48, 116, 124, 128, 141, 142 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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