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At last · WHD Drummer

At last · WHD Drummer
EXERCISE 1 OF 82
Groove AJ -- Part AJ (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 82 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART AJ
PART C
PART D
PART I
PART O
PART R
PART B
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBEAJRBC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play At last on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
66/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-29, snare through bars 30-35, toms through bars 36-37, hi-hat through bars 38-53 and ride through bars 54-60, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 77-79, 81-83 and 85-86, and 1 more place -- 7.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    77                                               78
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----------------------x-----------|x-----------x-----x-----x-----------x-----------|
At last -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 27, 29, 32, 34, 64, 68 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- AJ -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, BF (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part I -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-41 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is At last?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 At last hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 At last?

20 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 27, 29, 32, 34, 64, 68 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED