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KTS · Manifest

EXERCISE 3 OF 46
Fill at bar 48 (a small one)
21 / 65 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFAHPS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play KTS on drums

65 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, silence through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-60 and snare through bars 61-65.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 21-23 and 37-39, and 1 more place -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-x-----------|
KTS -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 25, 27, 28 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- F, A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 3-65 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-17 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-24 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is KTS?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 KTS hard to play on drums?

63 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 KTS?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 25, 27, 28 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED