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Playing Your Song · Hole

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDFBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Playing Your Song on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-91 and snare through bars 92-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 16 more places -- 61.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Playing Your Song?

127 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 Playing Your Song hard to play on drums?

49 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Playing Your Song?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED