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STARTAFIGHT · Joey Valence & Brae

STARTAFIGHT · Joey Valence & Brae
EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 40 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART J, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART J
PART N
PART N
PART O
PART S11
PART J
OUTRO
9 groovesBNJOS11+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play STARTAFIGHT on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-26, snare through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-50, snare through bars 51-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-56, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 15-20 and 22-24, and 7 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 27, 28, 50, 51, 52, 88 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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, O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-30 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Break 2 and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-89 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is STARTAFIGHT?

148 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 STARTAFIGHT hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 STARTAFIGHT?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 27, 28, 50, 51, 52, 88 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED