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Joy In Repetition · Prince

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 17 PASSED · 89 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
5 groovesDACBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Joy In Repetition on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
24/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-25, hi-hat through bars 26-140 and kick and crashes through bars 141-147.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-85 and 92-140 -- 60.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    71
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--xxx-x---xxx-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Joy In Repetition -- 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 16 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 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 24-86 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 84-147 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Joy In Repetition?

120 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 Joy In Repetition hard to play on drums?

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED