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Receiving Line · Title Fight

EXERCISE 7 OF 32
Groove F
49 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesMDBPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Receiving Line on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
43/100

toms through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-15, toms through bars 16-24, ride through bars 25-28, toms through bars 29-36 and snare through bars 37-39, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 10, and 8 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|--------------x-|
SD |----x----x--x---|----x---x-------|
T2 |----------------|----------x-----|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|x-x-x-x-----x---|
BD |--x--------x--x-|--x-----------x-|
Receiving Line -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 24, 26, 28, 44, 52 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-49 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Receiving Line?

84 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 Receiving Line hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Receiving Line?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 24, 26, 28, 44, 52 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED