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the CIA · Glass Beach

EXERCISE 19 OF 85
4-bar fill at bar 40
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0 / 85 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
CHORUS
PART K
PART R
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART AO
PART BA
PART BJ
OUTRO
19 groovesCIAOXBJ+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 5
JOIN · 16
LINK · 4
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play the CIA on drums

171 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-33, toms through bars 34-35, hi-hat through bars 36-70, toms through bars 71-85 and ride through bars 86-94, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 12 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------------------x-----------|
BD |x-------x-------------------x---|
HF |----x---------------------------|
the CIA -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 34, 35, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- C, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-33 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part X -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-58 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is the CIA?

135 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 the CIA hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 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 CIA?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 34, 35, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED