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Play Big · Downset

Play Big · Downset
EXERCISE 6 OF 40
Groove E -- Part E
33 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART A
PART E
PART A
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHAELP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Play Big on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-44 and snare through bars 45-48, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 45-47, and 4 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x---------x--x--x-|
BD |x-----x---------x-----x---------|
Play Big -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 48, 52, 56 and 7 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-25 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Play Big?

86 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 Play Big hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Play Big?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 48, 52, 56 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED