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Time Is Tight · T Booker

Time Is Tight · T Booker
EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove D -- Chorus
0 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 42 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDJFCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Time Is Tight on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-54, ride through bars 55-70, hi-hat through bars 71-98 and ride through bars 99-110.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-32 and 41-53, and 4 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----x-------x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Time Is Tight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 34, 36, 38, 40, 70, 72 and 4 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 -- D, J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-62 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 67-110 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Time Is Tight?

136 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 Is Tight hard to play on drums?

46 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Time Is Tight?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 34, 36, 38, 40, 70, 72 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED