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Very Hot Song! · Alo-A

EXERCISE 24 OF 28
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 126-128)
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PART C
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGJCLS5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Very Hot Song! on drums

132 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, toms through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-20, snare through bars 21-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-62, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 25-32 and 54, and 5 more places -- 49.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 130 and 131.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- G, J -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-35 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-86 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Very Hot Song!?

200 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 Very Hot Song! hard to play on drums?

50 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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.

How many fills are in Very Hot Song!?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 130 and 131.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED