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takin care of business drums · Bachman Turner Overdrive

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove C -- Outro
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OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play takin care of business drums on drums

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

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-160.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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