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Present Tense · Jonny, Thom & a CR-78

Present Tense · Jonny, Thom & a CR-78
EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Present Tense on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
38/100

hi-hat through bars 3-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24 and kick and crashes through bars 25-26, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9-17 and 20-21, and 14 more places -- 67.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |------xx------xx|
BD |x--xx---x--xx---|
Present Tense -- 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 10 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 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Present Tense?

90 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 Present Tense hard to play on drums?

38 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 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 · 121 BARS ANALYSED