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Safe and Sound · Capital Cities

Safe and Sound · Capital Cities
EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 7 PASSED · 76 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Safe and Sound on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
29/100

hi-hat through bars 2-17, silence through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-61, kick and crashes through bars 62-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-93.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 22-36 and 38-44, and 4 more places -- 86.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Safe and Sound -- 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 6 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Safe and Sound?

94 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 Safe and Sound hard to play on drums?

29 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED