ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Welcome To The Show on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 95 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 126
LENGTH: 5:13
DIFFICULTY: 60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-45, snare through bars 46-53, hi-hat through bars 54-67 and snare through bars 68-85, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 3 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e
CC |x---------------|--------------|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|--x-------x---|
T1 |-----------x----|--------------|
T2 |------------x---|--------------|
BD |x-x---x-------x-|x-----x-------|

Welcome To The Show -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- A, AJ -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 1-42 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part I and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part M and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
Through Part P and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
and 5 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Welcome To The Show?

95 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 Welcome To The Show hard to play on drums?

60 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Welcome To The Show?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED