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Neighborhood 2 (Laika) · The Arcade Fire

EXERCISE 15 OF 27
Join Part D to Part E (bars 74-76)
102 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART E
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART E
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDEGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Neighborhood 2 (Laika) on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
52/100

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 2-20, 30-36 and 52-66, and 1 more place -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |--x-------x-----|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Neighborhood 2 (Laika) -- 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 21, 37, 67, 75, 89 and 111.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 18-33 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 47-76 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 74-90 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 80-112 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Neighborhood 2 (Laika)?

135 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 Neighborhood 2 (Laika) 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Neighborhood 2 (Laika)?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 21, 37, 67, 75, 89 and 111.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED