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Only Time Will Tell · Asia

EXERCISE 5 OF 36
Groove E -- Part E
80 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGJES11S8+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Only Time Will Tell on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-58, silence through bars 59-64, hi-hat through bars 65-80, toms through bars 81-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-105, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-32, 46-55 and 91-92, and 3 more places -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-x-x-x-o-x-x-x-o-x-x-x-o-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Only Time Will Tell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 33, 34, 43, 56, 57 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 5-45 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-38 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-83 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 86-121 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Only Time Will Tell?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Only Time Will Tell hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Only Time Will Tell?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 33, 34, 43, 56, 57 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED