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小步舞曲 · 陳綺貞 Cheer Chen

小步舞曲 · 陳綺貞 Cheer Chen
EXERCISE 26 OF 29
Fill at bar 63 (a small one)
81 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesFAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 小步舞曲 on drums

81 bars, 4:21, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-79 and kick and crashes through bars 80-81.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-32, 34-35 and 38-39, and 7 more places -- 36.3% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
小步舞曲 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 36, 40 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- F, A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-45 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is 小步舞曲?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is 小步舞曲 hard to play on drums?

47 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?

81 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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 小步舞曲?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 36, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED