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forty hour suit standard · train breaks down

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove K -- Part K (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 44 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEKALAFAJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play forty hour suit standard on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-71, snare through bars 72-82, silence through bars 83-84, hi-hat through bars 85-102 and snare through bars 103-109.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-35, 37-43 and 45-51, and 2 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    29               30
    1.......2....... 1.......2.......
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-----xx|
BD |x-----x-----x---|----x-----x-----|
forty hour suit standard -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 19, 25, 60, 63, 69 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is forty hour suit standard?

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 forty hour suit standard hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 forty hour suit standard?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 19, 25, 60, 63, 69 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED