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Thing of Gold · Snarky Puppy

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove AZ -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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PART B
BREAK
PART S4
CHORUS
PART AG
PART AO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesPBBBAOAZ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thing of Gold on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 5:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, silence through bars 25-33, hi-hat through bars 34-64, snare through bars 65-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-88, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 96-109 -- 11.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    96               97
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
BD |x--xx--x--x-xx--|x--xx--x-x-x-xx-|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Thing of Gold -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- AZ, AG -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part S4 -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Thing of Gold?

86 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 Thing of Gold hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 18 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Thing of Gold?

7 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED