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Product Placement · 156/Silence

EXERCISE 4 OF 57
Groove B -- Part B
47 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART K
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART AI
PART AQ
OUTRO
12 groovesFAIRKS1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Product Placement on drums

124 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-15, snare through bars 16-24, hi-hat through bars 25-26, snare through bars 27-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-40, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 27-31 and 59-65, and 3 more places -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----------x-----|
Product Placement -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 24, 26, 36, 40, 44, 50 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- F, K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-37 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 34-50 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-59 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Product Placement?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Product Placement hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Product Placement?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 24, 26, 36, 40, 44, 50 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED