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Cigarettes in The Theatre · Two Door Cinema Club

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove C -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cigarettes in The Theatre on drums

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

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

TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-141 and snare through bars 142-144.

The beat

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.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Cigarettes in The Theatre -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 48, 116, 124, 128, 141, 142 and 1 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 -- C, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-34 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-44 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 48-100 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 99-108 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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