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Action And Action · Get Up Kids

EXERCISE 24 OF 67
Run K1 · Part K (bars 33-41)
117 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
PART M
PART B
PART H
PART K
PART M
PART F
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCKMHB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Action And Action on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-58, toms through bars 59-60, hi-hat through bars 61-103, silence through bars 104-106 and hi-hat through bars 107-110, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 9-10 and 27, and 12 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-----x-x---|
BD |x-x---x-------x-|
Action And Action -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 20, 52, 56, 59, 60 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- B, M -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-127 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part M and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Action And Action?

153 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 Action And Action hard to play on drums?

55 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 And Action?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 20, 52, 56, 59, 60 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED