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EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART B
PART S4
PART H
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesS2BS4HS6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Provider on drums

85 bars, 4:36, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-33, snare through bars 34-42, silence through bars 43-55, hi-hat through bars 56-57, snare through bars 58-60 and silence through bars 61-68, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 69-71, and 1 more place -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    34                                               35
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----------x-----|---x--x-----------x-----x-----x--------x-----x--|
Provider -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 37, 41, 53, 54, 56, 57 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 40-79 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Provider?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Provider hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 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 Provider?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 37, 41, 53, 54, 56, 57 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED