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Number 1 · Badflower

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove F -- Part F
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0 / 53 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART K
PART F
PART K
PART U
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBKFUVFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Number 1 on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 2:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-37 and ride through bars 38-45, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 11-12 and 28, and 2 more places -- 11.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x--g----x--g|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Number 1 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 9, 13, 17 and 18 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Number 1?

93 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 Number 1 hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Number 1?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 9, 13, 17 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED