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EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove D -- Chorus
0 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDAJLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Polícia on drums

98 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 1:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
1:58
DIFFICULTY
56/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-40 and toms through bars 41-48, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 25 and 27-31, and 4 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 56, 72 and 88.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-61 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Polícia?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Polícia hard to play on drums?

56 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 1:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Polícia?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 32, 56, 72 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED