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27 · Title Fight

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove R -- Outro
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART J
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesRBVNS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 27 on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 2:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-22, ride through bars 23-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37, ride through bars 38-53 and toms through bars 54-78, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55-56, 58-60 and 62-64, and 1 more place -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    55
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
T2 |--------------x-|
FT |x-g-x-xxx-g-x-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
27 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 69 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- R, B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is 27?

147 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 27 hard to play on drums?

59 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in 27?

3 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 69 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED