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Upgrades real · Secret Band
EXERCISE 4 OF 69
Groove D -- Chorus 2
37 / 183 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART AD
PART AM
14 groovesDRIAMAD+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Upgrades real on drums

183 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 2-17, toms through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-37, toms through bars 38-47, snare through bars 48-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-55, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56, 58 and 60-62, and 6 more places -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    113
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Upgrades real -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 29, 36 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- R, AD -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-47 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Upgrades real?

170 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 Upgrades real hard to play on drums?

61 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Upgrades real?

10 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 29, 36 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED