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Real Thing · Turnstile

EXERCISE 5 OF 34
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 34 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGAOKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Real Thing on drums

72 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 1:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
1:42
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-48, snare through bars 49-54 and toms through bars 55-56, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 25-31 and 57-62, and 1 more place -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 24, 40, 55 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- D, G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 13-29 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-41 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-53 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Real Thing?

170 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 Real Thing hard to play on drums?

51 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 1:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Real Thing?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 24, 40, 55 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED