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Don't Stand So Close To Me · The Police

EXERCISE 3 OF 22
Run B1 · Part B (bars 6-12)
86 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEFCDB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Don't Stand So Close To Me on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-11, hi-hat through bars 12-36, ride through bars 37-45, hi-hat through bars 46-61 and ride through bars 62-70, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-45, 62-70 and 87-97, and 1 more place -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|
Don't Stand So Close To Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 25-40 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 96-137 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Don't Stand So Close To Me?

140 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 Don't Stand So Close To Me hard to play on drums?

52 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED