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Prizefighter · Bush

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDQNIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Prizefighter on drums

159 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-69, ride through bars 70-79, hi-hat through bars 80-115, ride through bars 116-128 and toms through bars 129-133, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10 and 12, and 34 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 9, 21, 25, 37, 45, 57 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q, N -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-64 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-63 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 66-90 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 95-134 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Prizefighter?

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 Prizefighter hard to play on drums?

57 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Prizefighter?

11 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 9, 21, 25, 37, 45, 57 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED