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well, well, well, how the turntables · Foxtails

EXERCISE 6 OF 87
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
106 / 251 BARS COVERED
0 / 87 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART AE
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesIGSS19BA+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play well, well, well, how the turntables on drums

251 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 7:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
7:05
DIFFICULTY
68/100

ride through bars 1-18, silence through bars 19-27, snare through bars 28-35, ride through bars 36-43, hi-hat through bars 44-64 and ride through bars 65-93, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 124-126, 128-129 and 132, and 14 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    203
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------------------|
well, well, well, how the turntables -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 64, 113, 123, 127, 131, 133 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- S -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 92-117 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is well, well, well, how the turntables?

155 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 well, well, well, how the turntables hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 7:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 well, well, well, how the turntables?

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 64, 113, 123, 127, 131, 133 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED