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London Dungeon · Misfits

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDEBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play London Dungeon on drums

110 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:35 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-37, snare through bars 38-39, hi-hat through bars 40-41, snare through bars 42-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-47, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-36, 40 and 44, and 7 more places -- 53.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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, E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 1-37 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is London Dungeon?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is London Dungeon hard to play on drums?

47 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in London Dungeon?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

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