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The Bus · Gringhi della Spiaggia

The Bus · Gringhi della Spiaggia
EXERCISE 3 OF 50
Groove V -- Part V
54 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R, PART V, PART X
PART A
CHORUS
PART R
PART V
PART X
PART A
OUTRO
6 groovesDAVRAG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Bus on drums

126 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-17, toms through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, toms through bars 33-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-56, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 25-31 and 41-55, and 1 more place -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-----x---x---x-|
The Bus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- D, J -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Bus?

180 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 Bus hard to play on drums?

52 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 The Bus?

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED