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TQM · Little Jesus ft. Elsa y Elmar & Ximena Sariñana

TQM · Little Jesus ft. Elsa y Elmar & Ximena Sariñana
EXERCISE 32 OF 56
2-bar fill at bar 104
123 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART S2
PART N
PART S4
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesPNS2WS4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play TQM on drums

153 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 4:23 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-24, hi-hat through bars 25-49, silence through bars 50-60 and ride through bars 61-153.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-65, 67 and 69, and 29 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    61
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----------|
TQM -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- P, N -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-77 -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is TQM?

105 BPM, in 3/4, 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 TQM 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 TQM?

20 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED