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002 B-Song · Big Bottom Boy

EXERCISE 21 OF 21
Play the whole song with the record
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PART A
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
7 groovesGADHS5+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 002 B-Song on drums

204 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
47/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-27, snare through bars 28-52, kick and crashes through bars 53-60, hi-hat through bars 61-84, silence through bars 85-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-173, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-84, 101-116 and 118-173 -- 53.3% 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
HH |----x-------x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
002 B-Song -- 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 20 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-59 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 58-204 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is 002 B-Song?

220 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 002 B-Song hard to play on drums?

47 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED