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25 Or 6 To 4 · Chicago

EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove Q -- Chorus
0 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 54 BARS LIT
PART E
PART G
PART K
CHORUS
PART K
PART V
PART V
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
8 groovesQVKGE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 25 Or 6 To 4 on drums

174 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:42 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
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-64, ride through bars 65-98 and toms through bars 99-100, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-64, 122-124 and 126-127, and 3 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---X---x---o---|
SD |----x------gx---|
BD |x-x---x-x-xx--x-|
HF |--x---x---x---x-|
25 Or 6 To 4 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 36, 40, 72, 88, 91, 92 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V, G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 63-77 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 25 Or 6 To 4?

148 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 Or 6 To 4 hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 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 Or 6 To 4?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 36, 40, 72, 88, 91, 92 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED