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Always On Time (Bella Cordero) · Elevation Worship

EXERCISE 30 OF 46
Groove W -- Outro
48 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
PART H
PART M
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDZS4BH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Always On Time (Bella Cordero) on drums

81 bars, 4:46, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-15, hi-hat through bars 16-28 and silence through bars 29-39, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13 and 16-27 -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |---xx------xx---|
BD |xx------xx------|
Always On Time (Bella Cordero) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 40, 41, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- D, B, M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-53 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-29 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-53 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Always On Time (Bella Cordero)?

68 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Always On Time (Bella Cordero) hard to play on drums?

47 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Always On Time (Bella Cordero)?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 40, 41, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED