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Tek It (all parts) · cafune

EXERCISE 18 OF 39
Fill at bar 46 and 64 (a small one)
101 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART F
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesIFCKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tek It (all parts) on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-23, snare through bars 24-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-47, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 25 more places -- 29.2% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Tek It (all parts) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 46, 64, 80, 96, 104 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- F, I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-65 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tek It (all parts)?

147 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 Tek It (all parts) hard to play on drums?

50 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Tek It (all parts)?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 46, 64, 80, 96, 104 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED