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Absolutely · Nine Days

Absolutely · Nine Days
EXERCISE 10 OF 39
Join Part B to Part G (bars 6-8)
48 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART G
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJGBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Absolutely on drums

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 2-45, ride through bars 46-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-73.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-18, 22 and 34-36, and 5 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Absolutely -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 15, 19, 23 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- J, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-62 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-20 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 16-42 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Absolutely?

97 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 Absolutely hard to play on drums?

62 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Absolutely?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 15, 19, 23 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED