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Taxes · Geese

EXERCISE 4 OF 33
Groove C
34 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAFXKRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Taxes on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
84/100

toms through bars 1-36, ride through bars 37-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-80.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-13, 15 and 17-19, and 4 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |g-------x-------------------x-gg|
T2 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-----------x---x-----------x---|
Taxes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 44, 49, 50, 56, 69, 73 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Taxes?

92 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Taxes hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Taxes?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 44, 49, 50, 56, 69, 73 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED