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District · Sick Of It All

EXERCISE 3 OF 30
Groove D -- Part D (a two-bar phrase)
29 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play District on drums

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

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
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-19, snare through bars 20-22, hi-hat through bars 23-34, snare through bars 35-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-52, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-69 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-35 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-76 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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