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24 · Ka

24 · Ka
EXERCISE 3 OF 38
Groove J -- Part J
68 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART J
PART L
PART J
PART L
PART Y
CHORUS
PART J
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesZLNJY+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 24 on drums

162 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 7:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
7:39
DIFFICULTY
78/100

ride through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-17, ride through bars 18-58, toms through bars 59-64, ride through bars 65-120 and silence through bars 121-122, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 81-119 -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    81
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------x-------x---x---x---x---x-------x-------x---x---x---x---|
24 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 57 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part S3 and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 38-64 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 24?

84 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 hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 7:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 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 24?

3 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 57 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED