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The Greatest Show · Hugh Jackman, Keala Settle, Zac Efron, Zendaya & The Greatest Showman Ensemble

The Greatest Show · Hugh Jackman, Keala Settle, Zac Efron, Zendaya & The Greatest Showman Ensemble
EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove J -- Chorus
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0 / 48 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT
PART B
PART C
PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART O
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
18 groovesJBRDC+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Greatest Show on drums

192 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 4:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, silence through bars 33-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-48, snare through bars 49-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-85, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 98, 100 and 102, and 24 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    100
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-|
The Greatest Show -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 97, 105, 113 and 175.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- J, B -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 64-87 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 88-131 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 132-160 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Greatest Show?

154 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 The Greatest Show hard to play on drums?

40 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Greatest Show?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 97, 105, 113 and 175.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED