ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Judith on drums

105 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 82 BPM, 3:49 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 82 BPM
TIME: 3/4
BARS: 105
LENGTH: 3:49
DIFFICULTY: 86/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-37, ride through bars 38-43, hi-hat through bars 44-45, ride through bars 46-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-63, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-5, 30-35 and 44-45, and 1 more place -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2                        3
    1.......2.......3....... 1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|--------------------x---|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---o-------|
SD |------------x-----g---g-|--g-----g---x-------x---|
BD |X-----x---x---------x---|x---x-x---x-----x-------|

Judith -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 11, 13, 29, 37, 38 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 1-13 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part D and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
and 10 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Judith?

82 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Judith hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Judith?

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 11, 13, 29, 37, 38 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED