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Truly Random Code · A lot like birds

EXERCISE 5 OF 78
Groove E
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PART B
PART G
PART O
PART Q
PART T
PART AF
PART AE
PART AH
OUTRO
13 groovesABAEAHAFQ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Truly Random Code on drums

164 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-10, ride through bars 11-16, hi-hat through bars 17-44, silence through bars 45-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-62, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 84-86 and 99-115 -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    85
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
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Truly Random Code -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 59, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- AE, AB -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-27 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Truly Random Code?

142 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 Truly Random Code hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Truly Random Code?

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 59, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED