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The Present · Bloc Party

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACLQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Present on drums

174 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-152, snare through bars 153-159, toms through bars 160-161 and snare through bars 162-174.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-111 -- 63.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 112, 116, 120, 124, 128, 136 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 138-162 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Present?

150 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 Present hard to play on drums?

59 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Present?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 112, 116, 120, 124, 128, 136 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED