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Be A Toy · Title Fight

EXERCISE 32 OF 34
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 86-88)
89 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJBPLS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Be A Toy on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bars 3-18, ride through bars 19-34, toms through bars 35-42, ride through bars 43-58, hi-hat through bars 59-66 and snare through bars 67-74, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-23, 27-31 and 43-47, and 3 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    19               20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---g---g-----x-|x---g-------g-x-|
RD |----x---x-Xx----|----x---x-X-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|--x-------x---x-|
Be A Toy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- J, L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-63 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Be A Toy?

130 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 Be A Toy hard to play on drums?

59 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Be A Toy?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED