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TestingKC · Miscellaneous
EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove CE -- Outro
0 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART S3
BREAK 2
PART S5
BREAK 3
PART BN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCES3S5S6BN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play TestingKC on drums

163 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 6:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
77/100

snare through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-37, silence through bars 38-55, toms through bars 56-72, snare through bars 73-74 and toms through bars 75-80, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 127-128 and 130-131 -- 3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    127
    1...............2...............3...............
T2 |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
FT |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
TestingKC -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17 and 69 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- CE -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 55 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BN -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- CB -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part S3 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 5-71 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 56-126 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is TestingKC?

98 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 TestingKC hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 TestingKC?

6 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17 and 69 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED