ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Finished on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 150 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 139
LENGTH: 3:43
DIFFICULTY: 78/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-49, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 34-35, and 8 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10                                                               11
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x-----------------------x---------------x-------|----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x--x-x--x---------------x--x-x------------------x---------------|x--x-x--x--x-x----------x--x-x----------x-----------------------|

Finished -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 33, 57, 85, 86 and 93.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- D, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
Through Part I and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 27-61 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
Bars 61-84 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
Through Part K and Part Y -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Through Part Y -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
and 4 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Finished?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Finished hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Finished?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 33, 57, 85, 86 and 93.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED