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It's Just A Game · Alternative Competition 2

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove C -- Outro 2
0 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 96 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It's Just A Game on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
27/100

toms through bars 1-8 and snare through bars 9-112.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 18-32 and 34-40, and 6 more places -- 88.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
It's Just A Game -- 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 7 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 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is It's Just A Game?

134 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 It's Just A Game hard to play on drums?

27 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED