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The Ghetto · George Benson - Weekend in London

The Ghetto · George Benson - Weekend in London
EXERCISE 1 OF 75
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART Q
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesEFAUAAAI+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Ghetto on drums

169 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 6:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
6:02
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 2-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-10, hi-hat through bars 11-68, ride through bars 69-74, hi-hat through bars 75-112 and snare through bars 113-114, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 20 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-x---x-|
The Ghetto -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 10, 24, 26 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part AA -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Ghetto?

112 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 The Ghetto hard to play on drums?

58 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 6:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 The Ghetto?

16 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 10, 24, 26 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED