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Police Scanner · Chanel Beads

Police Scanner · Chanel Beads
EXERCISE 13 OF 17
Join Chorus 2 to Part D (bars 34-36)
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0 / 17 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART D
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesCDBS9S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Police Scanner on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 2:14 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
22/100

hi-hat through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-10, hi-hat through bars 11-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-30, snare through bars 31-35 and kick and crashes through bars 36-50, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 31-35 and 51-55, and 1 more place -- 42.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Police Scanner -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C, B -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-34 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Police Scanner?

122 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 Scanner hard to play on drums?

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 3 sittings, about 32 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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