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First Place · Heaven and The Sinners

First Place · Heaven and The Sinners
EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART A
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCJYAS9+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play First Place on drums

155 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-7, hi-hat through bars 8-90, snare through bars 91-92, hi-hat through bars 93-103 and silence through bars 104-110, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-24 and 61-67, and 7 more places -- 43.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-x---x---x-----|
First Place -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 16, 42, 50, 58, 68 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-40 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 10 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-93 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 95-103 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part U -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is First Place?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is First Place hard to play on drums?

52 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 First Place?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 16, 42, 50, 58, 68 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED