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This City · Alternative Competition 5

EXERCISE 12 OF 33
Join Part C to Part S4 (bars 15-17)
73 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART S4
PART C
PART S4
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHLCFA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This City on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-17, silence through bars 18-20, snare through bars 21-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-41, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-31, 49-55 and 96-103 -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x--x----x--x----|
RD |--x-x-x---x-x-x-|----------------|
SD |----x-------x---|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x-------x-x----x|x--x-x-xx--x-x-x|
This City -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 36, 44, 56 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- H, L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-32 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 31-57 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-88 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is This City?

100 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 This City hard to play on drums?

54 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 This City?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 36, 44, 56 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED