District · Sick Of It All

88 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-17, 23-33 and 45-51 -- 35.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 118 BPM
DISTRICT · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 34, 41, 57, 58, 59, 60 and 9 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 57-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 64-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 11 sections: 53 keep time, 15 are fills, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-17.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART M
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDMS1Q+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is District?

118 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 District 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in District?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 34, 41, 57, 58, 59, 60 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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