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Big Bang Baby · Stone Temple Pilots

EXERCISE 18 OF 28
Groove L -- Part L (a two-bar phrase)
90 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART L
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDAGLKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Big Bang Baby on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
42/100

snare through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-20, snare through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-48, snare through bars 49-62 and toms through bars 63-72, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-20, 22-24 and 43-44, and 9 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x----xx-x---x-|
Big Bang Baby -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 42.

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 -- D, A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-43 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-60 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 64-102 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Big Bang Baby?

124 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 Big Bang Baby hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Big Bang Baby?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 42.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED