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Partners In Crime · Set It Off

Partners In Crime · Set It Off
EXERCISE 28 OF 68
Fill at bar 56 and 104 (a small one)
107 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AI
12 groovesLEMAIAB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Partners In Crime on drums

164 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-25, silence through bars 26-30, snare through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-73 and silence through bars 74-76, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-39, 48-51 and 53-55, and 9 more places -- 23.3% 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
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Partners In Crime -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 16, 20, 31, 32, 42, 44 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- L, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-33 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part S5 and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Partners In Crime?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Partners In Crime hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Partners In Crime?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 16, 20, 31, 32, 42, 44 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED