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6 To 8 · AFI

EXERCISE 4 OF 25
Groove K -- Part K
35 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART A
PART S4
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGEKS4A+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 6 To 8 on drums

76 bars, 4:10, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-17, silence through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, toms through bars 29-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-44, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-35, 45-51 and 61-66 -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    29               30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |-------x--------|----------------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
T1 |xxxx------------|-x-----x-x----x-|
FT |xxxx------------|x-x---x-x-x-----|
BD |-------x--xx--x-|x--x---x---x-x-x|
6 To 8 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 36, 52 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- G, E -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Verse and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-56 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is 6 To 8?

73 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is 6 To 8 hard to play on drums?

56 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 To 8?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 36, 52 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED