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Edge of Town · Middle Kids

Edge of Town · Middle Kids
EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove E -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesERBS1S8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Edge of Town on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-44, ride through bars 45-48, hi-hat through bars 49-60, silence through bars 61-72 and toms through bars 73-79, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 37-39, and 5 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Edge of Town -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 36, 40, 44 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-45 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-53 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-81 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Edge of Town?

105 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 Edge of Town hard to play on drums?

45 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Edge of Town?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 36, 40, 44 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED