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That Song · Big Wreck

That Song · Big Wreck
EXERCISE 6 OF 27
2-bar fill at bar 41 and 3 more
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PART B
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHNBS6S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play That Song on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-42, snare through bars 43-45, hi-hat through bars 46-50, snare through bars 51-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-58, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 24 more places -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 41, 42, 49, 50, 57, 89 and 7 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 56-105 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is That Song?

139 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 Song hard to play on drums?

53 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 That Song?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 41, 42, 49, 50, 57, 89 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED