New Groove · Periphery

45 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 1:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
45
LENGTH
1:20
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-6, 9-10 and 17-18, and 1 more place -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
NEW GROOVE · BARS 5-6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 18 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 12-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

45 bars across 5 sections: 15 keep time, 24 are fills and 4 are silent.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART L
OUTRO
4 groovesCLS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is New Groove?

140 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 New Groove hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

45 bars, about 1:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in New Groove?

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 45 BARS ANALYSED
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