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ABC (Bass) · Jackson 5

ABC (Bass) · Jackson 5
EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove C -- Outro
0 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART G
VERSE
PART G
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGLMBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ABC (Bass) on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 2:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-27, snare through bars 28-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-68.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 14 and 44-47, and 4 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
ABC (Bass) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 38 and 41.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 20-42 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 30-68 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is ABC (Bass)?

94 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 ABC (Bass) 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 ABC (Bass)?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 38 and 41.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED