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Ten Seconds · Blaze

EXERCISE 14 OF 23
Join Part F to Chorus (bars 31-33)
56 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS
PART B
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesS6ICFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ten Seconds on drums

116 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 190 BPM, 4:46 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
37/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-32, snare through bars 33-41, hi-hat through bars 42-57 and snare through bars 58-60, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 15 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a
CC |----------------x-----x-----x---|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x-------x-----x-----|
BD |x-------x-x-----x-----x-----x---|
Ten Seconds -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, I -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-55 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ten Seconds?

190 BPM, in 8/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ten Seconds hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Ten Seconds?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 37.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED