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Action · Amoniac

EXERCISE 32 OF 37
Run Q1 · Outro (bars 29-43)
58 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART G
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesWIQGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Action on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 1:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
1:52
DIFFICULTY
88/100

toms through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-15, toms through bars 16-20, snare through bars 21-28, ride through bars 29-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-34, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-46, 48-50 and 52-54, and 5 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |X---X---X-X-----X---X---X---X-X-|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-X-X-|
Action -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 11 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- W -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-35 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Action?

145 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 Action hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 1:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Action?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 11 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED