ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Song 10 on drums

163 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 4:10 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 130 BPM
TIME: 3/4
BARS: 163
LENGTH: 4:10
DIFFICULTY: 68/100

ride through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-64, ride through bars 65-68, snare through bars 69-84, hi-hat through bars 85-100 and ride through bars 101-104, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 69-84 and 157-162 -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    69                                   70
    1...........2...........3........... 1...........2...........3...........
SD |x--g--g--g--x--g--g--g--x--g--g--g--|x--g--g--g--x--g--g--g--x-g-g-g-g-g-|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------|
HF |x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------|

Song 10 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 48, 56, 64, 106, 110, 114 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- U, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part F and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
Through Part J and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through Part M and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
and 4 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Song 10?

130 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Song 10 hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 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 Song 10?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 48, 56, 64, 106, 110, 114 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED