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Count 'Em · Brandon Lake

EXERCISE 31 OF 43
Join Chorus 3 to Break 4 (bars 75-77)
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0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, BREAK 4
COUNT-IN
BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART F
PART D
PART D
CHORUS 3
BREAK 4
PART N
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCNDKS1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Count 'Em on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-12, silence through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-76, silence through bars 77-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-108, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 33 and 35, and 6 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|
Count 'Em -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 51, 52, 59, 60, 100, 107 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-42 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 75-102 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Count 'Em?

140 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 Count 'Em hard to play on drums?

41 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Count 'Em?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 51, 52, 59, 60, 100, 107 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED