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Politix · Balu Brigada

EXERCISE 12 OF 12
Play the whole song with the record
111 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 146 BARS LIT
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
OUTRO
VERSE
6 groovesBS2S6DE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Politix on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, silence through bars 41-56, kick and crashes through bars 57-58, hi-hat through bars 59-114, silence through bars 115-130 and hi-hat through bars 131-146.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-38, 59-81 and 83-114, and 1 more place -- 81.4% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Politix -- 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Politix?

130 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 Politix hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED