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EXERCISE 4 OF 83
Groove X -- Part X
40 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART X, OUTRO
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART X
CHORUS 3
PART X
PART X
PART AJ
PART E
PART X
OUTRO
11 groovesGXEAAAH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play For Whos Advantage on drums

189 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 7:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
7:44
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-45, ride through bars 46-49, hi-hat through bars 50-65 and ride through bars 66-72, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 12 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    50                               51
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......7.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------|
For Whos Advantage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 29, 37, 41 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- G, E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-50 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is For Whos Advantage?

100 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 For Whos Advantage hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 7:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 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 For Whos Advantage?

16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 29, 37, 41 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED