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True. · Spandau Ballet

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove C -- Chorus 2
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PART B
PART S3
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCBS3HE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play True. on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, silence through bars 15-22, hi-hat through bars 23-96, silence through bars 97-98 and hi-hat through bars 99-129.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 25-28 and 42, and 9 more places -- 46.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
True. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 61, 89, 93 and 117.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 12-29 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-101 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-90 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 93-105 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is True.?

100 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 True. hard to play on drums?

41 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in True.?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 61, 89, 93 and 117.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED