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Kyoto · Phoebe Bridgers

EXERCISE 19 OF 30
Join Part F to Part G (bars 37-39)
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0 / 30 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART G
CHORUS
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEFGAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kyoto on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-20, toms through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24, toms through bars 25-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-28, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19 and 47-62 -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Kyoto -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 63, 81, 85, 89, 93 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B, E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-46 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-82 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Kyoto?

130 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 Kyoto 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 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Kyoto?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 63, 81, 85, 89, 93 and 2 more.

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