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4 · proekt

4 · proekt
EXERCISE 23 OF 45
Join Part V to Part P (bars 48-50)
53 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V, PART P
CHORUS
PART V
PART P
PART AM
PART AR
OUTRO
BREAK 2
10 groovesS11BVARBC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 4 on drums

135 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-13, silence through bars 14-16, hi-hat through bars 17-60, ride through bars 61-72, snare through bars 73-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-76, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 4 more places -- 7.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a9e
HH |--o---o---o---o-o-o---o---o---o---|
SD |----------x---x-x-----x-----------|
BD |--x-x-x-----x-----x-x-----x---x-x-|
4 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 33, 41, 73, 75, 76, 78 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-28 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part V -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part V -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-63 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 4?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is 4 hard to play on drums?

58 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 4?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 33, 41, 73, 75, 76, 78 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED