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70 · KWMTT

EXERCISE 22 OF 47
Groove U
90 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, PART T
PART H
PART M
PART S6
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART S13
OUTRO 2
12 groovesPHS6MS13+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 70 on drums

143 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-31, toms through bars 32-33, silence through bars 34-47, snare through bars 48-71 and toms through bars 72-73, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65, 67 and 69, and 13 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
70 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 24, 56, 64, 66, 68 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- T, P -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part S3 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part S3 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-57 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part S8 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 70?

169 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 70 hard to play on drums?

49 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 70?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 24, 56, 64, 66, 68 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED