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Twenty Flight Rock · Paul McCartney

EXERCISE 16 OF 33
Join Part G to Part C (bars 27-29)
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0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART C
PART A
PART B
PART G
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
10 groovesIBHMA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Twenty Flight Rock on drums

127 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bars 1-14, snare through bars 15-21, hi-hat through bars 22-28, snare through bars 29-35, hi-hat through bars 36-71 and snare through bars 72-73, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-50, 52 and 54-63, and 2 more places -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    43
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o---------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x--------------------------x----x--------------------------x----|
Twenty Flight Rock -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-29 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 27-63 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Twenty Flight Rock?

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

Is Twenty Flight Rock hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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