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It's Showtime · B'Z

EXERCISE 6 OF 13
Groove E
133 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, VERSE 2
VERSE
VERSE 2
VERSE 3
VERSE 4
6 groovesDBS4S6S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It's Showtime on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
86/100

hi-hat through bars 2-26, silence through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-65, silence through bars 66-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-145.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-16, 18-20 and 22-26, and 6 more places -- 93.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxoxxxxx|
SD |----x-----------|
BD |xxxx---x-xx---x-|
It's Showtime -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 145.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-66 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is It's Showtime?

147 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 Showtime hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in It's Showtime?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 145.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED