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Kiss in October · Sadness

Kiss in October · Sadness
EXERCISE 24 OF 27
Join Part I to Chorus 2 (bars 224-226)
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0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART A
PART F
PART S5
PART I
CHORUS 2
7 groovesBS5IFA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kiss in October on drums

248 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 8:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
248
LENGTH
8:33
DIFFICULTY
29/100

snare through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-64, hi-hat through bars 65-93, silence through bars 94-96, ride through bars 97-129 and silence through bars 130-188, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-32, 65-91 and 193-224 -- 48.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 64, 92 and 188.

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 -- A, B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 61-93 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and Part S5 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part S5 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Kiss in October?

116 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 Kiss in October hard to play on drums?

29 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 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

248 bars, about 8:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 Kiss in October?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 64, 92 and 188.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 248 BARS ANALYSED