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TTTLOA · TTTLOA

TTTLOA · TTTLOA
EXERCISE 1 OF 64
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
VERSE
PART K
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
VERSE 2
PART AE
CHORUS 4
PART AM
VERSE 3
BREAK 3
13 groovesDAS18AEAM+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play TTTLOA on drums

143 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22 and snare through bars 23-28, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 19, and 8 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x--xx---x-|
TTTLOA -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 18, 22, 38 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Verse and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is TTTLOA?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is TTTLOA hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 19 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 TTTLOA?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 18, 22, 38 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED