ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Judge on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO: 113 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 101
LENGTH: 3:36
DIFFICULTY: 79/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, toms through bars 10-12, snare through bars 13-28, toms through bars 29-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-35, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-16, 18-19 and 21-22, and 2 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15                               16
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x---x---|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---x-x-x---x---|
T1 |--------------------------x-x---|--------------------------------|
T2 |------------------------x-----x-|--------------------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

The Judge -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 9-25 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part V -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes. Open above.
Bars 32-67 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
and 8 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is The Judge?

113 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 Judge hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Judge?

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED