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Kids · Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue

Kids · Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue
EXERCISE 20 OF 40
Run C2 · Verse 2 (bars 40-52)
73 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE 2
PART D
VERSE
PART H
VERSE 2
CHORUS
VERSE 3
OUTRO
7 groovesCGDHW+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kids on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-63, snare through bars 64-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-110.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 19 and 22-27, and 3 more places -- 29% 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 |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----x-xx-----|
Kids -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 44, 52, 61, 62, 63 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Verse 2 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Verse 2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus and the Verse 3 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Kids?

92 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?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Kids?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 44, 52, 61, 62, 63 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED