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Bust a Move (with bass) · Young MC

Bust a Move (with bass) · Young MC
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EXERCISE 6 OF 8
Groove H
124 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bust a Move (with bass) on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 2-129.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-24, 26-32 and 34-40, and 8 more places -- 91.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|--x--x--x--x--x-|
Bust a Move (with bass) -- 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 7 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Bust a Move (with bass)?

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 Bust a Move (with bass) hard to play on drums?

55 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 5 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED