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Professionalism · Ali

EXERCISE 11 OF 14
Join Chorus to Part G (bars 73-75)
140 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
4 groovesAIGS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Professionalism on drums

149 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
39/100

hi-hat through bars 1-75, kick and crashes through bars 76-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-149.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-9 and 11-17, and 9 more places -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 10, 18, 43, 59, 67, 118 and 4 more.

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 -- A, I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Professionalism?

123 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 Professionalism hard to play on drums?

39 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 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 Professionalism?

2 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 10, 18, 43, 59, 67, 118 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED