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Detroit Rock City Ver Greatest Kiss · Kiss

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove G -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART B
CHORUS 4
6 groovesGMBFL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Detroit Rock City Ver Greatest Kiss on drums

168 bars at 181 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-111, snare through bars 112-113 and hi-hat through bars 114-168.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-32, 45-60 and 90-105, and 1 more place -- 37.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17                       18
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x--x--------x--x--|--x---x-----------x---x-|
BD |x--------------x--------|x---x-----x-----x-------|
Detroit Rock City Ver Greatest Kiss -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 40, 112, 113, 159, 162, 163 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-41 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Detroit Rock City Ver Greatest Kiss?

181 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Detroit Rock City Ver Greatest Kiss hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Detroit Rock City Ver Greatest Kiss?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 40, 112, 113, 159, 162, 163 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED