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As · Stevie Wonder

EXERCISE 3 OF 60
Groove AF
76 / 183 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART B
PART J
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesYCTJB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play As on drums

183 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 7:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
7:27
DIFFICULTY
82/100

hi-hat through bars 2-11, ride through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-19, ride through bars 20-28, hi-hat through bars 29-42 and ride through bars 43-44, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 72, 80 and 88, and 30 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    88
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r--r-r------|
T2 |----x-------x---|
BD |x--gx--gx-xgx--g|
As -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 53, 59, 71, 83, 93, 99 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is As?

98 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 As hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 7:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 19 sittings, about 23 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 As?

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 53, 59, 71, 83, 93, 99 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED