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Concorde · Black Country, New Road

EXERCISE 4 OF 54
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
28 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
PART A
PART D
PART K
CHORUS
PART E
PART S7
PART AF
OUTRO 2
12 groovesTAS7AMK+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Concorde on drums

125 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 65 BPM, 5:46 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bars 1-25, hi-hat through bars 26-73, silence through bars 74-88, ride through bars 89-100, snare through bars 101-107 and hi-hat through bars 108-110, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7 and 9-19 -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 28, 36, 37, 54, 64, 108 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- A, T -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-92 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Concorde?

65 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Concorde hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 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 Concorde?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 28, 36, 37, 54, 64, 108 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED