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Punching Bag · Set It Off

Punching Bag · Set It Off
EXERCISE 5 OF 46
Groove F -- Part F (a two-bar phrase)
18 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART X
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIFXSS2+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Punching Bag on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-9, silence through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-17, silence through bars 18-22 and kick and crashes through bars 23-25, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 58-60, and 2 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26               27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
RD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-----x---x---x-|
Punching Bag -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 22, 23, 24 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- I -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, X -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part S2 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-26 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-41 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-51 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-61 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-78 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Punching Bag?

116 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 Punching Bag 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?

86 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Punching Bag?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 22, 23, 24 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED