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Band Thingy 10 · Bullets On Toast

Band Thingy 10 · Bullets On Toast
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EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove D -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesS7DLATFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Band Thingy 10 on drums

61 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 131 BPM, 3:26 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
131 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-43, ride through bars 44-52 and toms through bars 53-61.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-9, 11-13 and 45-47, and 1 more place -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7                            8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a
CC |x---------------------------|--------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x-X---X-x---x---|X---x---x---x-X---X-x---x---x---|
SD |--x-----x---------------x-g-|--------x---------------x-----x-|
BD |x-----xx------x---x---xx----|x-----xx------x---x---xx--x-----|
Band Thingy 10 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-68 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Band Thingy 10?

131 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Band Thingy 10 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Band Thingy 10?

4 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED