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On The Case · Acoustic Alchemy

On The Case · Acoustic Alchemy
EXERCISE 6 OF 21
Join Chorus to Part E (bars 53-55)
103 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play On The Case on drums

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.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-129.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- C, E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 51-75 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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