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The Boston Drama · typecast

The Boston Drama · typecast
EXERCISE 42 OF 67
Run AA1 · Part AA (bars 89-94)
152 / 200 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AA
PART B
PART H
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART S13
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesQBFHS13+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Boston Drama on drums

200 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
44/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-21, snare through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-34, toms through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-40, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10-14 and 22-23, and 23 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|--x-x-----x---x-|
The Boston Drama -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 9, 17, 20, 21, 25, 28 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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, Q -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-33 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 68-92 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 89-119 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Boston Drama?

160 BPM, in 4/4, 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 The Boston Drama hard to play on drums?

44 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Boston Drama?

12 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 9, 17, 20, 21, 25, 28 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED