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Suffragette City · David Bowie

EXERCISE 23 OF 23
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCQLS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suffragette City on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-3 and hi-hat through bars 4-122.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-14 and 16-18, and 18 more places -- 62.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 31, 33, 53, 55, 59, 63 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 94-109 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Suffragette City?

140 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 Suffragette City hard to play on drums?

55 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Suffragette City?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 31, 33, 53, 55, 59, 63 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED