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EXERCISE 9 OF 36
Groove G -- Part G
107 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART O
CHORUS 4
PART G
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEIGOB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Balls To The Wall on drums

171 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-5, toms through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-49, snare through bars 50-51, hi-hat through bars 52-86 and snare through bars 87-88, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 35-41, and 12 more places -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 18, 26, 42 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- E -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 13-43 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 50-97 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 52-100 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Balls To The Wall?

120 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 Balls To The Wall hard to play on drums?

49 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Balls To The Wall?

6 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 9, 13, 18, 26, 42 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED