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How Long · Ace

How Long · Ace
EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove B -- Verse
0 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 76 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, VERSE 2
VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play How Long on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-48, ride through bars 49-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-99.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-48, 66-80 and 82-88, and 1 more place -- 80% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
How Long -- 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 10 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Verse and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Verse 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is How Long?

123 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 How Long hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED