← SONGS

King Park · La Dispute

EXERCISE 5 OF 77
Groove H -- Outro 2
19 / 196 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART AK
PART S9
PART AR
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesKS9BHAX+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 6
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play King Park on drums

196 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 5:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-59, ride through bars 60-61 and kick and crashes through bars 62-64, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-12 and 14, and 1 more place -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
King Park -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 15, 16, 17 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-33 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-71 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part S5 and Part AA -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part AA and Part AH -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part AK -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is King Park?

145 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 King Park hard to play on drums?

54 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 King Park?

13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 15, 16, 17 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED