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EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bags on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 4:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-113.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-25, 34-41 and 50-65, and 1 more place -- 56.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-------|
Bags -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 97.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-98 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bags?

106 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 Bags hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Bags?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED