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Paint · First Day Back

EXERCISE 35 OF 44
15-bar fill at bar 60
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0 / 44 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART C
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART C
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKCHAEF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Paint on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
60/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-72, snare through bars 73-76 and toms through bars 77-84, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 37-39, and 1 more place -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 28, 30, 32 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-24 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 28-49 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Paint?

100 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 Paint hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Paint?

10 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 28, 30, 32 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED