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69 Tea · Seether

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove B -- Part B
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0 / 39 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART B
PART G
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesICBS1G+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 69 Tea on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-52, ride through bars 53-64, hi-hat through bars 65-92 and ride through bars 93-99.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20 and 29-36 -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
69 Tea -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-54 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 69 Tea?

114 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 69 Tea hard to play on drums?

55 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 69 Tea?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED