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Time Moves Slow · BADBADNOTGOOD

Time Moves Slow · BADBADNOTGOOD
EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove I -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 36 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART Q
PART D
CHORUS
PART Q
PART V
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIVAAADD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Time Moves Slow on drums

76 bars, 4:19, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
79/100

snare through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-27, ride through bars 28-35, hi-hat through bars 36-59, ride through bars 60-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-65, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-11, 15-17 and 19-26, and 1 more place -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15                               16
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x---x-|o-------x-x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x---x-|
SD |--g-g---x-gg-gg---g-g---x-gg-gg-|------g-x-gg-gg---g-g---x-gg-gg-|
BD |x-----x--------xx-----x--------x|x--------------xx-----x--------x|
Time Moves Slow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 31, 59, 74 and 75.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 10-38 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Time Moves Slow?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Time Moves Slow hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Moves Slow?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 31, 59, 74 and 75.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED