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Combat Baby · Metric

EXERCISE 3 OF 7
Groove B
109 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 7 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
OUTRO
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Combat Baby on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
60/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-17, 19-33 and 35-49, and 5 more places -- 94% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxx-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |------x---------|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Combat Baby -- 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 6 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Combat Baby?

139 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 Combat Baby hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED