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25 · Ka

25 · Ka
EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove M -- Chorus
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0 / 48 PASSED · 45 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMICSB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 25 on drums

195 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
6:30
DIFFICULTY
75/100

toms through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-18, ride through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22, ride through bars 23-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-26, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-66, 85-99 and 179-193 -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
T1 |--x---xx------x-|
T2 |--x-x------xx-x-|
FT |----x-----x-x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
25 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 9 more.

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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 25?

120 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 25 hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 6:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 25?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED