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EXERCISE 15 OF 21
Join Part C to Chorus 2 (bars 52-54)
90 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesAKCS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ask For Answers on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
48/100

ride through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-22, ride through bars 23-29, hi-hat through bars 30-54, ride through bars 55-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-70, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-21 and 31-33, and 8 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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BD |x-----x-----x--x|
Ask For Answers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 14, 30, 38 and 46.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-73 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ask For Answers?

82 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 Ask For Answers hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ask For Answers?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 14, 30, 38 and 46.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED