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Recital Piece #2 · Jacob Askin

Recital Piece #2 · Jacob Askin
EXERCISE 10 OF 28
Groove BC (a two-bar phrase)
25 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBBIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Recital Piece #2 on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
84/100

snare through bars 1-18, toms through bars 19-25, snare through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-68 and ride through bars 69-90.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 10-12, and 1 more place -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3                                                                4
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------g---------------g---------------g---------------|x---------------g---------------g---------------g---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x---------------x---x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x---------------x-------x---------------|x-----------------------x---------------x-----------------------|
HF |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
Recital Piece #2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12 and 39 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 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BI -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BC (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Recital Piece #2?

80 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 Recital Piece #2 hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Recital Piece #2?

9 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED