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абоба 2 · Eternal Spirit

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 47 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
PART L
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesEILGB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play абоба 2 on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-85, kick and crashes through bars 86-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-95.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-20 and 39-50 -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x-------x-----|
SD |----x-------x---|
T1 |-------x--------|
T2 |------x--x------|
BD |x-------x-------|
абоба 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 21, 30, 34 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- E, G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-30 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-42 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is абоба 2?

130 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 абоба 2 hard to play on drums?

49 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 абоба 2?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 21, 30, 34 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED