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EXERCISE 6 OF 33
3-bar fill at bar 80 and 2 more
57 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART S4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCMAUS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play tied up on drums

110 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
45/100

toms through bars 1-74, hi-hat through bars 75-98 and ride through bars 99-110.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 9 more places -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
T2 |---------x------|
FT |x-x-----x-xx----|
tied up -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 56, 57, 58, 62, 66 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C, U -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-83 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-82 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is tied up?

200 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 tied up hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 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 tied up?

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 56, 57, 58, 62, 66 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED