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731 · Belmont

EXERCISE 9 OF 54
6-bar fill at bar 10
27 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART A
PART Z
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNDAJABAF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 731 on drums

73 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 2:26 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
83/100

hi-hat through bars 3-4, toms through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-28, toms through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-33 and ride through bars 34-40, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-20, 23 and 27-28, and 2 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---xx--x---x---xx|
731 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 20 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 -- N -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Break and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 2-22 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 19-42 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 731?

90 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 731 hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 731?

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED