ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Basement Show 1 - Ticks and Leeches on drums

88 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 162 BPM, 3:37 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 162 BPM
TIME: 7/4
BARS: 88
LENGTH: 3:37
DIFFICULTY: 67/100

toms through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-41, ride through bars 42-45, hi-hat through bars 46-61, ride through bars 62-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-73, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-11 -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                            2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a
SD |--------X---------------X---|--------X---------------XX--|
T1 |---X-g-g-g-g-----X-g-g-g-x--|-g-X-g-g-g-g-----X-g-g-g--xx|
T2 |X---------g---X-----------xx|----------g---X-------g-----|
FT |X-g-g-X-----x-X-g-g-X-g-----|X-g-g-X-----x-X-g-g-X-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-----x-------|x-----x-----x-x-----x-------|

Basement Show 1 - Ticks and Leeches -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
Through Part AF -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
Through Part A and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through Part A and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part O and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
Through Part S and Part AF -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
and 2 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Basement Show 1 - Ticks and Leeches?

162 BPM, in 7/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Basement Show 1 - Ticks and Leeches hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 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 Basement Show 1 - Ticks and Leeches?

3 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED