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The model · Big Black

EXERCISE 9 OF 17
Groove E
67 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The model on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-25, hi-hat through bars 26-35, snare through bars 36-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-79.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-24 and 36-45 -- 43% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- A, C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 47-56 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The model?

125 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 model hard to play on drums?

47 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 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED