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City Walls · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 29 OF 42
Join Chorus 3 to Break (bars 67-69)
82 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, BREAK
PART B
PART G
PART L
CHORUS 3
BREAK
PART Q
BREAK 2
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDBQYG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play City Walls on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 5:06 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
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-68, silence through bars 69-72, hi-hat through bars 73-92 and silence through bars 93-100, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 14 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 56, 64, 116 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- D, Q -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-29 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-57 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-93 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is City Walls?

94 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 Walls hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 City Walls?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 56, 64, 116 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED