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EXERCISE 24 OF 66
Groove D -- Part D
56 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART A
PART D
PART I
BREAK
CHORUS
PART S7
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesRS7IAKS4+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play the tower on drums

139 bars at 189 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
189 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-35, silence through bars 36-50, toms through bars 51-69, snare through bars 70-98 and hi-hat through bars 99-106, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51-53, 55-57 and 59-61, and 5 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    51               52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x---------------|
SD |----------------|x---------------|
T2 |----------x---x-|------x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x-------x---|
the tower -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 22 and 44 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 -- R -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 1-22 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-63 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and the Break 2 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is the tower?

189 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is the tower hard to play on drums?

58 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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.

How many fills are in the tower?

21 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 22 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED