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Cities in Dust · Siouxsie And The Banshees

EXERCISE 12 OF 39
Groove H
82 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cities in Dust on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
66/100

ride through bars 3-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-36, ride through bars 37-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-112.

The beat

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x-x--x--x-|
Cities in Dust -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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, J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-58 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-91 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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