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That Is The Time · The Bursthead

EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 7 PASSED · 88 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesBS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play That Is The Time on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
48/100

The time is kept on the snare the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 25 more places -- 74.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx-xxx-xxx-xxx-x|
That Is The Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-87 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is That Is The Time?

120 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 That Is The Time hard to play on drums?

48 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED