On The Case · Acoustic Alchemy

129 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-39, 41-53 and 71-77, and 2 more places -- 39.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
ON THE CASE · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 70, 78, 127 and 128.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 127-128 · LANDS ON BAR 129 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 8 sections: 103 keep time, 4 are fills, 8 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-125.

COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEAGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is On The Case?

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 On The Case hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 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 On The Case?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 70, 78, 127 and 128.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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