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The Ninth Song · Mistakenly Heartfelt

The Ninth Song · Mistakenly Heartfelt
EXERCISE 20 OF 41
Run S1 · Chorus (bars 51-67)
51 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART F
PART J
PART S8
CHORUS
PART AB
PART AH
BREAK
15 groovesS17SABFS8+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Ninth Song on drums

131 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 3:42 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
28/100

ride through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-7, toms through bars 8-31, hi-hat through bars 32-42, silence through bars 43-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-52, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-11 and 16-19 -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
T2 |----x-----x-|
BD |x-x---x-x---|
The Ninth Song -- 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 40 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, E, F -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-19 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-34 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-58 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part AB -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part AB and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 89-106 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 105-111 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Ninth Song?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Ninth Song hard to play on drums?

28 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED