ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play TS Practice on drums

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 2:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 88 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 65
LENGTH: 2:49
DIFFICULTY: 83/100

hi-hat through bars 1-13, ride through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-21, ride through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-62 and toms through bars 63-65.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-43 -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35                           36
    1.......2.......3.......4... 1.......2.......3.......4...
CC |x---------------------------|----------------------------|
HH |----x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-x-o-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x---------------x---|--------x---------------x---|
BD |x---x---------x-----x-------|x---x---------x---x---------|
HF |----------------x-----------|----------------x---x-------|

TS Practice -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- B (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Bars 1-49 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
and 6 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is TS Practice?

88 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 TS Practice hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 TS Practice?

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED