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Mind Your Business · Sunami

EXERCISE 14 OF 37
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-9)
39 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDNARM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mind Your Business on drums

69 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 1:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
1:23
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 1-14, snare through bars 15-17, hi-hat through bars 18-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-29, hi-hat through bars 30-32 and snare through bars 33-36, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-52 -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    37               38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|x-x-----x-x---x-|
Mind Your Business -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- N -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-14 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 6-18 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mind Your Business?

164 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Mind Your Business hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 1:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Mind Your Business?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED