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Tick Tock · Black Lightning

Tick Tock · Black Lightning
EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Join Chorus to Break (bars 36-38)
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0 / 12 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
9 groovesAS2S4S7S9+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tick Tock on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

19 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
19/100

hi-hat through bars 1-37, silence through bars 38-40, hi-hat through bars 41-42, silence through bars 43-45, hi-hat through bars 46-52 and silence through bars 53-55, and 3 more changes after that.

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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. Bars 36-52 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 51-63 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Tick Tock?

130 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 Tick Tock hard to play on drums?

19 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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