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EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove C -- Outro
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0 / 8 PASSED · 69 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
3 groovesCAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tush on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 2:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
54/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-80.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-31 and 33-43, and 3 more places -- 88.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Tush -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Tush?

144 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 Tush hard to play on drums?

54 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Tush?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED