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Typical Ways · Culture Wars

Typical Ways · Culture Wars
EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove B -- Part B
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0 / 20 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesIBGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Typical Ways on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 2:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-46, kick and crashes through bars 47-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-60, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-20 and 33, and 5 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 22, 47, 48, 52, 56 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- B, I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Typical Ways?

123 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 Typical Ways hard to play on drums?

45 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Typical Ways?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 21, 22, 47, 48, 52, 56 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED