← SONGS

16th Century Greensleeves · Rainbow

EXERCISE 14 OF 31
Run G1 · Chorus (bars 9-17)
55 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART L
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesGDLS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 16th Century Greensleeves on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
48/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-68 and silence through bars 69-72.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 14-16 and 29-34, and 7 more places -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----------------x-----------x-----------x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
16th Century Greensleeves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 7, 12, 17 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-69 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is 16th Century Greensleeves?

85 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 16th Century Greensleeves hard to play on drums?

48 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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 16th Century Greensleeves?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 7, 12, 17 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED