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EXERCISE 12 OF 92
Groove B
86 / 181 BARS COVERED
0 / 92 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART G
PART V
PART Y
PART V
PART AJ
OUTRO 2
12 groovesMGVYAJ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Show Must Go On on drums

181 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

54 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
181
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-12, snare through bars 13-19, toms through bars 20-24, snare through bars 25-109 and silence through bars 110-115, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 135 and 139, and 6 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    135
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
The Show Must Go On -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 9, 10, 16, 20, 21, 22 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- M -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 13-34 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-37 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-44 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part V -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Show Must Go On?

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 Show Must Go On hard to play on drums?

54 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Show Must Go On?

24 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 9, 10, 16, 20, 21, 22 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED