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THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD · girlfriends

EXERCISE 22 OF 73
Join Part K to Part M (bars 35-37)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
PART M
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AD
PART AF
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBPAOADAI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD on drums

130 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-48, snare through bars 49-52, hi-hat through bars 53-68, toms through bars 69-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-92, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13-15, and 10 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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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-|
THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 24, 32, 34, 36, 40, 44 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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, K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-54 -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-44 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-51 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 41-54 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD?

160 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 THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD hard to play on drums?

60 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD?

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 24, 32, 34, 36, 40, 44 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED