Cities in Dust · Siouxsie And The Banshees

112 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicPunk120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 26-27 and 30-31, and 12 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
CITIES IN DUST · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 12, 24, 28, 36, 44, 55 and 8 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 9 sections: 87 keep time, 14 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-87.

PART C
PART G
PART L
PART G
PART L
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJGLEC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cities in Dust?

120 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 Cities in Dust hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 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 Cities in Dust?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 12, 24, 28, 36, 44, 55 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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