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Citadel · Angelmaker

EXERCISE 17 OF 57
Join Part M to Chorus (bars 63-65)
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0 / 57 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART H
PART M
CHORUS
PART AE
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesQXMS1H+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Citadel on drums

166 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-38, ride through bars 39-50, snare through bars 51-84, hi-hat through bars 85-101, ride through bars 102-108 and hi-hat through bars 109-116, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-52, 55-57 and 62-63, and 5 more places -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    55
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Citadel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 50, 86, 120, 134, 136, 148 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- M, Q -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-87 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-99 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Citadel?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Citadel hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Citadel?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 50, 86, 120, 134, 136, 148 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED