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EXERCISE 5 OF 46
Groove O -- Part O
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0 / 46 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART A
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLAOFY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Choice Of Words on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-48, toms through bars 49-55, snare through bars 56-71 and toms through bars 72-76, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 7 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--------x--------x-----x--------x--------x--x--|
My Choice Of Words -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 28, 36, 64, 72, 80 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 10-28 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-60 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Choice Of Words?

140 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 My Choice Of Words hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 My Choice Of Words?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 28, 36, 64, 72, 80 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED