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Last Train to London · Rikas

EXERCISE 8 OF 15
Run C1 · Outro (bars 1-75)
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0 / 15 PASSED · 75 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
VERSE
2 groovesCGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Last Train to London on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
63/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-33 and 35-41, and 4 more places -- 74.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Last Train to London -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 34, 50, 64, 66, 90 and 91.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Last Train to London?

122 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 Last Train to London hard to play on drums?

63 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Last Train to London?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 34, 50, 64, 66, 90 and 91.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED