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Fine Time · Cast
EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 32 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART G
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBCDGE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fine Time on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 3-37, toms through bars 38-39, hi-hat through bars 40-70 and toms through bars 71-74.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-16, 21-28 and 33-36, and 2 more places -- 40.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 59, 67 and 69.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-37 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-71 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-60 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 58-65 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fine Time?

99 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 Fine Time hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Fine Time?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 59, 67 and 69.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED