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Districts of misery · Oceano

EXERCISE 9 OF 64
Groove V -- Part V
26 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V
PART B
PART E
PART I
CHORUS
PART V
PART Z
PART I
PART V
OUTRO 2
6 groovesMEIVZ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Districts of misery on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-34, snare through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-51, snare through bars 52-60, ride through bars 61-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-94, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 88-90, and 1 more place -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10                               11
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |----------------x---------------|x---------------x-----x-X-------|
HH |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
BD |xxx-----------------xxx---xxx---|xxx-------------xxx-------------|
Districts of misery -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 29 and 18 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Districts of misery?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Districts of misery hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Districts of misery?

17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 29 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED