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BC · tal wilkenfeld
EXERCISE 14 OF 89
Groove AK -- Part AK
71 / 207 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AK
CHORUS
PART AK
PART AQ
PART BJ
PART CG
PART CR
PART O
20 groovesJBJCROAQ+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 5
JOIN · 19
LINK · 4
SECTION · 19
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BC on drums

207 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 6:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
6:28
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-16, toms through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-29, ride through bars 30-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-67, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 80-87, 89 and 91 -- 4.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    80
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x--x-x|
BD |x--x-x------|
BC -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 63 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- BJ -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, BB -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part AK -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part AK -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part AK -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part AK -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part AK and Part AQ -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is BC?

115 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 BC hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 6:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 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 BC?

10 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 63 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED