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Hot Child In The City · Nick Gilder

Hot Child In The City · Nick Gilder
EXERCISE 17 OF 32
Groove I
69 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECJRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hot Child In The City on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
45/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-68, snare through bars 69-70, hi-hat through bars 71-87, ride through bars 88-94 and hi-hat through bars 95-96.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 11 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |r-r-x-r---r-x---|
BD |x-------------x-|
Hot Child In The City -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 13, 37, 69, 70 and 91.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-54 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 57-71 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-95 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hot Child In The City?

112 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 Hot Child In The City hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Hot Child In The City?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 13, 37, 69, 70 and 91.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED