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Tempting Time · Not Animals As Leaders

EXERCISE 2 OF 56
Groove AI -- Part AI (a two-bar phrase)
11 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AI
CHORUS
PART W
PART S3
PART AB
PART AE
PART AG
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGAIABS3AU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tempting Time on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
93/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-10, snare through bars 11-18, toms through bars 19-20, snare through bars 21-28 and toms through bars 29-30, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64, 66 and 68, and 8 more places -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    64
    1.......2.......3...
CC |x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------x---------|
BD |x---x-x---x---x-x---|
Tempting Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- AB -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tempting Time?

110 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 Tempting Time hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Tempting Time?

10 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED