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Apartment · Modern Baseball

EXERCISE 6 OF 28
Groove H
32 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesEPGJB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Apartment on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-23, ride through bars 24-35, hi-hat through bars 36-45, ride through bars 46-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-59, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-23 and 44-45, and 1 more place -- 24.2% 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-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Apartment -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 9, 10, 15 and 43.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 5-30 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-47 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Apartment?

135 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 Apartment hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Apartment?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 9, 10, 15 and 43.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED