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Cigarettes out the Window · TV Girl

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove E -- Chorus
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VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEBAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cigarettes out the Window on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
51/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-92.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-27, 45-59 and 85-91 -- 40.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Cigarettes out the Window -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 92.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Verse and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Verse 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 73-92 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cigarettes out the Window?

114 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 Cigarettes out the Window hard to play on drums?

51 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Cigarettes out the Window?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED