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Step by Step In Time · Benny Rivers

Step by Step In Time · Benny Rivers
EXERCISE 5 OF 23
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 20-22)
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0 / 23 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Step by Step In Time on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
45/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-71, kick and crashes through bars 72-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-92.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 30-32 and 42, and 5 more places -- 42.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Step by Step In Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 29, 65 and 91.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- E, B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part H and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Step by Step In Time?

82 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 Step by Step In Time hard to play on drums?

45 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Step by Step In Time?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 29, 65 and 91.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED