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Kids · MGMT

EXERCISE 19 OF 23
Join Part K to Break (bars 113-115)
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0 / 23 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, BREAK
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART K
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBAHFK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kids on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
33/100

snare through bars 3-58, kick and crashes through bars 59-73, snare through bars 74-90, toms through bars 91-98, hi-hat through bars 99-100 and snare through bars 101-102, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-58, 75-90 and 102, and 4 more places -- 69.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Kids -- 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 107.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Kids?

123 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 Kids hard to play on drums?

33 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Kids?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 107.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED