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NJ Legion Iced Tea · A Day To Remember

EXERCISE 14 OF 42
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 42 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 4
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBLEABI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play NJ Legion Iced Tea on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-15, hi-hat through bars 16-17, snare through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-23 and snare through bars 24-45, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-10 and 16, and 12 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x-x-x---x-|
NJ Legion Iced Tea -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 11, 17, 41, 47, 88, 90 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- B, L -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-37 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-28 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 31-48 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-75 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus 4 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is NJ Legion Iced Tea?

149 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 NJ Legion Iced Tea hard to play on drums?

47 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 NJ Legion Iced Tea?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 11, 17, 41, 47, 88, 90 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED