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Album Song 1 (WIP) · Minimum Wage

Album Song 1 (WIP) · Minimum Wage
EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove A -- Chorus 2
0 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AB
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesAAKEABX+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Album Song 1 (WIP) on drums

99 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, kick and crashes through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-22, snare through bars 23-29, toms through bars 30-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-38, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 5 and 11-13, and 8 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Album Song 1 (WIP) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 6, 9, 10, 14, 17, 18 and 49 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-73 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Album Song 1 (WIP)?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Album Song 1 (WIP) hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Album Song 1 (WIP)?

15 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 6, 9, 10, 14, 17, 18 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED