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Business is Business · Albino

EXERCISE 9 OF 38
Groove M
47 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
PART A
PART O
PART Q
PART V
PART AD
PART AJ
OUTRO 2
14 groovesS15QAJVA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Business is Business on drums

155 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 6:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
6:29
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-20, silence through bars 21-25, ride through bars 26-33 and silence through bars 34-37, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-39, 42-43 and 46-47, and 3 more places -- 11.1% 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.......5. 1.......2.......3.......4.......5.
RD |x----------------x----------------|x----x--x--x-----x--x-------------|
SD |--------x----------------x--------|--------x--------x--x--X--X-------|
BD |x-------------x-------------------|x----x--------x-------------------|
Business is Business -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 26-61 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-85 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Business is Business?

118 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 Business is Business hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 6:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED