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Movin' On · Bad Company

EXERCISE 32 OF 34
Run AA1 · Outro (bars 85-94)
91 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
5 groovesHIAAJS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Movin' On on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-38, snare through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-54, snare through bars 55-56, hi-hat through bars 57-86 and toms through bars 87-92, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 19-20 and 22-23, and 9 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Movin' On -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 39, 40 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-95 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Movin' On?

120 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 Movin' On hard to play on drums?

49 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Movin' On?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 39, 40 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED