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Landing In London · 3 Doors Down

EXERCISE 16 OF 26
Groove I (a two-bar phrase)
40 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesS1LBCHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Landing In London on drums

77 bars, 3:04, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-28, snare through bars 29-50, ride through bars 51-66, snare through bars 67-68 and ride through bars 69-77.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 30 and 32, and 8 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    40
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |o---------------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x----x|
HF |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Landing In London -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 31, 35, 39, 47, 52, 61 and 4 more.

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 -- B, C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Landing In London?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Landing In London hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Landing In London?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 31, 35, 39, 47, 52, 61 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED