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"Time After Time" · Downtown Singapore

"Time After Time" · Downtown Singapore
EXERCISE 21 OF 48
Chorus into Part M with the record (bars 50-57)
116 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART M
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART F
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO 2
7 groovesICMS1F+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Time After Time" on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-47, snare through bars 48-51, hi-hat through bars 52-53, toms through bars 54-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-83, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-47, 52-53 and 76-83, and 2 more places -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    38               39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-------x---x-|
"Time After Time" -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 23, 31, 49, 51, 61, 69 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- I, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-40 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-70 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 63-91 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is "Time After Time"?

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 "Time After Time" hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 "Time After Time"?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 23, 31, 49, 51, 61, 69 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED