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Big News 1 · Clutch

EXERCISE 16 OF 23
Groove I
102 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAJGFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Big News 1 on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 5:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-36, snare through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-52, ride through bars 53-56 and snare through bars 57-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 21-31 and 41, and 5 more places -- 49.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 40 and 60.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- A, J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 31-37 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-64 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Big News 1?

81 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 News 1 hard to play on drums?

50 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Big News 1?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 40 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED