ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play gg on drums

205 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 8:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO: 99 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 205
LENGTH: 8:02
DIFFICULTY: 55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-22, hi-hat through bars 23-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-34 and snare through bars 35-42, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-45, 47-49 and 94-96, and 5 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o---------------|
SD |----------------x---------------------------x-----------x-------|
BD |x-------x---------------x-------x-------x-------x---------------|

gg -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 42, 54, 93, 105, 139, 143 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- U, W -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Bars 1-187 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 10-31 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
Through Part O -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
Through Part O and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
Through Part R and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 10 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is gg?

99 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 gg hard to play on drums?

55 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 8:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 gg?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 42, 54, 93, 105, 139, 143 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED