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Baggy Trousers · Madness

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove I -- Chorus 2
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PART D
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIPDCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Baggy Trousers on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 2-19, toms through bars 20-21 and hi-hat through bars 22-104.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 28 and 32, and 8 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-o-x-x-x-o-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Baggy Trousers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 21, 29 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- I, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-34 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Baggy Trousers?

143 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 Baggy Trousers hard to play on drums?

55 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Baggy Trousers?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 21, 29 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED