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Streetcar · Funeral For A Friend

EXERCISE 15 OF 32
Groove N
92 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFCIPS6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Streetcar on drums

140 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-57, hi-hat through bars 58-89 and silence through bars 90-99, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-30, 32 and 34-36, and 16 more places -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-------x-----|
Streetcar -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 123 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- F, C -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 40-90 -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part I and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Streetcar?

177 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 Streetcar hard to play on drums?

61 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 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 Streetcar?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 123 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED