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A Company · Human Tetris

EXERCISE 7 OF 16
Join Chorus to Part E (bars 32-34)
136 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesBGEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Company on drums

138 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-69, ride through bars 70-133 and hi-hat through bars 134-138.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 70-133 -- 46.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-73 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is A Company?

185 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 A Company 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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