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NYC · Interpol

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove N -- Part N (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART K
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBNTGS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play NYC on drums

161 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-48, ride through bars 49-64, hi-hat through bars 65-77, kick and crashes through bars 78-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-112, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 81-94, 97-99 and 101-103, and 2 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    81               82
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|o---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-x---x-|----x-x---x---gg|
BD |x-x---x-----x---|x-----------x---|
NYC -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 36, 48, 52, 80 and 112.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- N, B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 61-81 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 109-148 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is NYC?

145 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 NYC hard to play on drums?

53 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 NYC?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 36, 48, 52, 80 and 112.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED