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City Hall · Tenacious D

EXERCISE 28 OF 36
Run A1 · Part A (bars 145-153)
148 / 181 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART F
PART I
PART A
OUTRO 2
13 groovesLFOMI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play City Hall on drums

181 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 8:03 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
8:03
DIFFICULTY
31/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-9, silence through bars 10-12, snare through bars 13-46, silence through bars 47-54 and ride through bars 55-66, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 71-78, 83-90 and 95-102, and 3 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    71
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |------------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
City Hall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 8, 34, 69, 81, 93 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- L, F -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-46 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 77-142 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 145-160 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is City Hall?

90 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 City Hall hard to play on drums?

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 6 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 8:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid 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 City Hall?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 8, 34, 69, 81, 93 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED