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asdfghj · Asdfghj

asdfghj · Asdfghj
EXERCISE 20 OF 25
Run A3 · Chorus 3 (bars 65-76)
108 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play asdfghj on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bars 1-56, ride through bars 57-64, toms through bars 65-92 and ride through bars 93-109.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-15, 18-19 and 22-27, and 10 more places -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-----xxx-----|
asdfghj -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 108.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-34 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-57 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is asdfghj?

127 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 asdfghj 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 asdfghj?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED