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moment of truth · red clay strays

moment of truth · red clay strays
EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove A -- Part A
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PART A
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART S9
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLAFS9Q+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play moment of truth on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 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
156
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
41/100

ride through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-56, ride through bars 57-87, toms through bars 88-104, silence through bars 105-113 and toms through bars 114-115, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-31 and 61, and 9 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|
moment of truth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 64, 72, 102 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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, L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-79 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 76-92 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 89-104 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 102-117 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is moment of truth?

116 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 moment of truth hard to play on drums?

41 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 moment of truth?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 64, 72, 102 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED