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EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove F -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFHAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Trac-Trac on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
48/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-20, snare through bars 21-25, hi-hat through bars 26-40, snare through bars 41-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-100, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 19-20 and 26-27, and 11 more places -- 67.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Trac-Trac -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 36, 46, 56 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-28 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-57 -- 6 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-107 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Trac-Trac?

130 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 Trac-Trac hard to play on drums?

48 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Trac-Trac?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 36, 46, 56 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED