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8 · Jackson Burka

EXERCISE 1 OF 75
Groove G -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART J
PART U
PART X
PART AK
PART AU
OUTRO 2
13 groovesGAKXOAU+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 2
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 8 on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
84/100

ride through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-23, ride through bars 24-31, hi-hat through bars 32-53, ride through bars 54-56 and snare through bars 57-65, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-18 and 110-117 -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11                                                           12
    1...............2...............3...............4........... 1...............2...............3...............4.......
CC |x---------------x-------x-----------x-----x-----------x-----|x---------------x-------x----------x----x----------x----|
HH |--------o---------------------o-----------------o-----------|--------o--------------------o---------------o----------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------x-----------------|----------------x-----------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x---------------x-----x-----x-----------x-----x-----|x-------x---------------x----x-----x---------x-----x----|
8 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 22, 23, 24 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 8?

122 BPM, in 4/4, 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 8 hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 8?

14 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 22, 23, 24 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED