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Watching The Detectives · Elvis Costello

Watching The Detectives · Elvis Costello
EXERCISE 18 OF 48
Run K1 · Part K (bars 12-26)
83 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART C
PART K
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART U
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO 2
8 groovesOLDKAK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Watching The Detectives on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 3-126.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-22, 41 and 43-45, and 6 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |--x---x--x--x--x--x--o--|
SD |------------r-----------|
BD |x---x-------------x-----|
Watching The Detectives -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 2, 14, 33, 34, 118 and 126.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- L, O -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 2-39 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Watching The Detectives?

137 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Watching The Detectives hard to play on drums?

64 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Watching The Detectives?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 2, 14, 33, 34, 118 and 126.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED