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Just The Beginning · Dave Billock

Just The Beginning · Dave Billock
EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove E -- Chorus
0 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 41 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Just The Beginning on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bar 1, ride through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-73, ride through bars 74-75, hi-hat through bars 76-99 and ride through bars 100-118.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26, and 20 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Just The Beginning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 65, 73, 74, 75, 107 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E, B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 54-76 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Just The Beginning?

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 Just The Beginning hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Just The Beginning?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 65, 73, 74, 75, 107 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED