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Changes · Yes

EXERCISE 17 OF 64
Join Part S4 to Part E (bars 33-35)
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COUNT-IN
PART E
PART S4
PART E
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
16 groovesKTEPH+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Changes on drums

198 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
5:54
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-14, toms through bars 15-29, silence through bars 30-33, toms through bars 34-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-54, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-53, 123-128 and 130-132, and 5 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Changes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 28, 33 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- K, E -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-35 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-46 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 53-76 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part S13 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 84-113 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 110-122 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Changes?

135 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 Changes hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 5:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Changes?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 28, 33 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED