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Englishman In New York · Sting

EXERCISE 4 OF 31
Groove P -- Part P
48 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART X
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDAFXAH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Englishman In New York on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-56, ride through bars 57-71, snare through bars 72-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-108.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11-13 and 15, and 13 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |--g-x-------x-----g-x-------x---|
SD |------------r---------------r---|
BD |--------x---------------x-------|
Englishman In New York -- 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 30 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 -- D, AF -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-47 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part X -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Englishman In New York?

102 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 Englishman In New York hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED