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Analog Kid · Rush

EXERCISE 27 OF 71
Join Part K to Part L (bars 78-80)
191 / 221 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART L
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART K
PART L
CHORUS 4
PART I
CHORUS 5
PART A
7 groovesCIABL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Analog Kid on drums

221 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
60/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, ride through bars 15-20, hi-hat through bars 21-30, ride through bars 31-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-46, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-13, 21-30 and 35-41, and 5 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |---x-----x-----x--------|
Analog Kid -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 34, 46, 50, 82, 84, 86 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- C, A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 80-217 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 78-90 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Analog Kid?

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

Is Analog Kid hard to play on drums?

60 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Analog Kid?

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 34, 46, 50, 82, 84, 86 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED