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EXERCISE 3 OF 30
Groove A
83 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCBS4S3S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Four to Six on drums

124 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:22 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-26, snare through bars 27-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-34, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13-15, and 29 more places -- 54.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Four to Six -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 24, 27, 28 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-114 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 51-68 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Four to Six?

210 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 Four to Six hard to play on drums?

53 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Four to Six?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 24, 27, 28 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED