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Streets Of Philadelphia (EADG) · Bruce Sprngsteen

Streets Of Philadelphia (EADG) · Bruce Sprngsteen
EXERCISE 9 OF 13
Groove D
67 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Streets Of Philadelphia (EADG) on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 2:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25, snare through bars 26-40, hi-hat through bars 41-43 and snare through bars 44-52, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-21, 26-40 and 44-50, and 1 more place -- 58% 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----x---|
BD |x-xx----x-x-----|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Streets Of Philadelphia (EADG) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 69.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-50 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Streets Of Philadelphia (EADG)?

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 Streets Of Philadelphia (EADG) hard to play on drums?

45 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Streets Of Philadelphia (EADG)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 69.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED