takin care of business drums · Bachman Turner Overdrive

160 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-31 and 33-160 -- 98.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
TAKIN CARE OF BUSINESS DRUMS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 32.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 2 sections: 155 keep time, 2 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-160.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is takin care of business drums?

128 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 takin care of business drums hard to play on drums?

46 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in takin care of business drums?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 32.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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