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Past Time With Good Company · Ritchie Blackmore

EXERCISE 12 OF 12
Play the whole song with the record
86 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 87 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Past Time With Good Company on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on ride, snare, mid tom and kick.

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
28/100

snare through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-54, snare through bars 55-64, ride through bars 65-77 and snare through bars 78-87.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-25, 27-41 and 43-51, and 3 more places -- 57.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-----x-x-------|
T2 |x-xxx-x-x-x-x-x-|
Past Time With Good Company -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Past Time With Good Company?

118 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 Past Time With Good Company hard to play on drums?

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED