ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 24 Hours Left on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 125 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 98
LENGTH: 3:06
DIFFICULTY: 92/100

ride through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-12, ride through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-24 and snare through bars 25-40, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 42-44, and 1 more place -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5                                6
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|----------------x---x---x---x---|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o-------------------|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

24 Hours Left -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
Bars 22-37 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Through Part U and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 5 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is 24 Hours Left?

125 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 24 Hours Left hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 24 Hours Left?

9 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED