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30/90 · Tick, Tick, BOOM! Musical

30/90 · Tick, Tick, BOOM! Musical
EXERCISE 25 OF 86
Groove S
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COUNT-IN
PART D
PART N
CHORUS
PART K
PART AD
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AL
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
11 groovesRS1YKAD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 13
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 30/90 on drums

199 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 8:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
8:51
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-35, toms through bars 36-37, kick and crashes through bars 38-39, toms through bars 40-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-59, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 80-82, 84-86 and 128-130, and 4 more places -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    80               81
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-g-----|--g-g---x-g---gg|
BD |x-x---x-----x-x-|----------------|
30/90 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 36, 37, 40, 41, 44, 45 and 34 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- Y, K -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 45-88 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-109 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 30/90?

85 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 30/90 hard to play on drums?

50 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 8:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 30/90?

17 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 36, 37, 40, 41, 44, 45 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED