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Big B · To Suffer is Human

EXERCISE 27 OF 49
Groove S -- Part S
66 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
PART B
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART S
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNBAAGS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Big B on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
68/100

ride through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-28, hi-hat through bars 29-37 and snare through bars 38-46, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-44 and 88-103 -- 22.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38                                               39
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x--x--x-----x-----------x--x-----x--x-----|------x--x-----x--x-----x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Big B -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 13, 29, 45, 48, 50, 54 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- N, G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-14 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-30 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 20-46 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part S -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Big B?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Big B 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?

103 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Big B?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 13, 29, 45, 48, 50, 54 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED