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The Price of Being Born w drumz · Daturalite

EXERCISE 35 OF 61
Hold Groove B for 8 bars -- Part B (bars 34-41)
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0 / 61 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART A
PART E
PART P
PART B
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAEEABAQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Price of Being Born w drumz on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-19, snare through bars 20-49, hi-hat through bars 50-53 and snare through bars 54-61, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-31, 38-39 and 61, and 4 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26               27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|--x---x---x---x-|
The Price of Being Born w drumz -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- P, A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Price of Being Born w drumz?

135 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 Price of Being Born w drumz hard to play on drums?

48 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Price of Being Born w drumz?

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED