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EXERCISE 12 OF 43
Run A1 · Part A (bars 17-24)
37 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART A
PART C
PART S5
PART H
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesTOHS5V+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Five on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-23, toms through bars 24-33, silence through bars 34-41, snare through bars 42-75 and silence through bars 76-77, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62-66, 68-70 and 72-74, and 7 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    62
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----------x---x---|
Five -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 32, 46, 54, 71, 78 and 1 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 -- O, H -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-50 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part H and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-89 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-80 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Break 2 and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Five?

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 Five hard to play on drums?

49 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Five?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 32, 46, 54, 71, 78 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED