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Prog Band Idea · Jacob Johnson

Prog Band Idea · Jacob Johnson
EXERCISE 23 OF 70
Groove AC
71 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART BP
PART E
CHORUS
PART AD
PART N
PART AR
PART BD
PART BP
13 groovesRNARBPBD+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Prog Band Idea on drums

140 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-109 and toms through bars 110-140.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 123-138 -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    123            124
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e
SD |------xx------|------xxxx----|
T1 |--------xx----|------------xx|
T2 |--xx--------xx|--------------|
FT |--------------|--xx----------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Prog Band Idea -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 13, 15, 16, 17, 49, 50 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- BP -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R, BD -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-55 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-27 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AD -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Prog Band Idea?

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

Is Prog Band Idea hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Prog Band Idea?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 13, 15, 16, 17, 49, 50 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED