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Top of the Bill · Gurriers

Top of the Bill · Gurriers
EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Top of the Bill on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-55, ride through bars 56-60, hi-hat through bars 61-95, ride through bars 96-105 and hi-hat through bars 106-121.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 26 more places -- 61.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Top of the Bill -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 81 and 121.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 56-99 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Top of the Bill?

126 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 Top of the Bill hard to play on drums?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Top of the Bill?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 81 and 121.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED