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EXERCISE 4 OF 13
Run B1 · Chorus (bars 15-30)
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0 / 13 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesBS1S5AS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play bones on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-34, hi-hat through bars 35-46, silence through bars 47-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-74.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-30 and 36-37, and 2 more places -- 83.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
bones -- 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 58.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 15-59 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is bones?

120 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 bones 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 bones?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 58.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED