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SHOWDOWN · RIOT!

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
2 groovesBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SHOWDOWN on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
37/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-60, kick and crashes through bars 61-62, silence through bars 63-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-82.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6-8 and 10-15, and 11 more places -- 73.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 29, 38, 40 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is SHOWDOWN?

85 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 SHOWDOWN hard to play on drums?

37 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in SHOWDOWN?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 29, 38, 40 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED