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EXERCISE 4 OF 13
Groove C
60 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART S9
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
8 groovesDAS9FS11+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play From The Start on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-55, silence through bars 56-58, kick and crashes through bars 59-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-75.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27-30 and 43-49, and 3 more places -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
From The Start -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- D, A -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 24-70 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is From The Start?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 From The Start hard to play on drums?

48 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?

75 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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