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Lets get it on advanced · Marvin Gaye

EXERCISE 23 OF 31
Join Part H to Outro (bars 70-72)
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0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDAFHBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lets get it on advanced on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 5:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
55/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 4 and 6-8, and 14 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-x---|
Lets get it on advanced -- 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 17, 49 and 77.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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, D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-21 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-79 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-71 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 68-95 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Lets get it on advanced?

82 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 Lets get it on advanced hard to play on drums?

55 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Lets get it on advanced?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 17, 49 and 77.

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