Police And Thieves · The Clash

178 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 9:15 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkHip Hop / ReggaeUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
9:15
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-60, 63-108 and 111-150 -- 79.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 77 BPM
POLICE AND THIEVES · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 2 and 3.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 2 sections: 165 keep time, 3 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-62.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Police And Thieves?

77 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 Police And Thieves hard to play on drums?

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 9:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Police And Thieves?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 2 and 3.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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