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Red Sector A · Rush

EXERCISE 11 OF 76
Groove E
54 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
CHORUS
PART C
VERSE
PART L
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBANIXC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Red Sector A on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-65, ride through bars 66-68, hi-hat through bars 69-87, toms through bars 88-89, kick and crashes through bars 90-92 and toms through bars 93-109, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 8, and 12 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxo-xxo-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Red Sector A -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 30, 44, 48, 52, 60, 63 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part C and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 78-137 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Red Sector A?

118 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 Red Sector A hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 Red Sector A?

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 30, 44, 48, 52, 60, 63 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED