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Police And Thieves · The Clash

EXERCISE 6 OF 11
Run D1 · Outro (bars 1-150)
150 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 150 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Police And Thieves on drums

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

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
9:15
DIFFICULTY
28/100

toms through bars 1-4 and snare through bars 5-178.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Police And Thieves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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