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Got To Choose · KISS

EXERCISE 7 OF 29
Run B1 · Part B (bars 7-10)
45 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFGBCI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Got To Choose on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-10, toms through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-40, toms through bars 41-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-65, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22 and 26-28, and 9 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|
Got To Choose -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 40, 44, 48, 73, 74, 75 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- F, G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-43 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-53 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Got To Choose?

110 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 Got To Choose hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Got To Choose?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 40, 44, 48, 73, 74, 75 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED