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EXERCISE 3 OF 44
Groove J
54 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHFSLB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Random ah song on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-131 and kick and crashes through bars 132-133.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-26, 29 and 31, and 13 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x---------------g---------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Random ah song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 5, 27, 43, 45, 48 and 7 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 -- H, F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-21 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-80 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Random ah song?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Random ah song hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 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 Random ah song?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 3, 5, 27, 43, 45, 48 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED