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Ah · Duman

EXERCISE 11 OF 22
3-bar fill at bar 36
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0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART C
PART E
PART E
PART I
PART C
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesS10EICS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ah on drums

100 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 5:00 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28 and ride through bars 29-46, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 21-27 and 47-53 -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x-----------------|
Ah -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 16, 36, 37 and 38.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 47-100 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ah?

120 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Ah hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 21 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 Ah?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 16, 36, 37 and 38.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED