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The Metro · Berlin

EXERCISE 11 OF 11
Play the whole song with the record
86 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 87 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Metro on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
86/100

hi-hat through bars 2-14, ride through bars 15-22, hi-hat through bars 23-34, ride through bars 35-43, hi-hat through bars 44-51 and ride through bars 52-59, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-22, 35-42 and 52-59, and 1 more place -- 37.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-x-|
The Metro -- 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 10 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-87 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is The Metro?

87 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 Metro hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 5 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED