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6 · emir
EXERCISE 23 OF 44
Fill at bar 36 (a small one)
74 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART K
PART B
PART I
PART K
CHORUS
PART T
BREAK
OUTRO
BREAK 2
11 groovesS11S8QTK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 6 on drums

149 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 117 BPM, 4:15 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-14, hi-hat through bars 15-19, snare through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-23 and snare through bars 24-25, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-61 -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
SD |x-----x--xx-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|
6 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 11, 12, 13 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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, T -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-21 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 60-121 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part S9 and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 6?

117 BPM, in 3/4, 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 6 hard to play on drums?

57 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 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 30 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 6?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 11, 12, 13 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED