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Attention Span · By Rebelution

Attention Span · By Rebelution
EXERCISE 38 OF 44
Run Q1 · Part Q (bars 122-142)
183 / 198 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 6
PART Q
CHORUS 7
CHORUS 8
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDEQIM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Attention Span on drums

198 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-103, silence through bars 104-112 and hi-hat through bars 113-198.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 31 more places -- 45.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|
Attention Span -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 7, 8, 22, 23, 24, 39 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- D, E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-51 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-68 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-80 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 90-125 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 122-157 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Attention Span?

150 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 Attention Span hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Attention Span?

8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 7, 8, 22, 23, 24, 39 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED