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4 Degrees · Tool

EXERCISE 1 OF 70
Groove AP -- Part AP
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CHORUS
PART Q
PART Y
PART AH
PART AP
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDQAPAHY+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 4 Degrees on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 5:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
5:48
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-29, ride through bars 30-35, hi-hat through bars 36-47 and ride through bars 48-53, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 92-95, 97-98 and 116-126 -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- AP -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part Y -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 32-62 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 4 Degrees?

87 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 4 Degrees hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 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 4 Degrees?

18 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED