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顔 (4sting Ba.) · Ave Mujica

EXERCISE 6 OF 58
Groove B -- Part B
49 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART P, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART P
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHBPS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 顔 (4sting Ba.) on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 2-97, kick and crashes through bars 98-102 and hi-hat through bars 103-140.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 17 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x-------x---x-|
顔 (4sting Ba.) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15 and 66 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 34-43 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 顔 (4sting Ba.)?

140 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 顔 (4sting Ba.) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 顔 (4sting Ba.)?

20 fills to learn, played 72 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15 and 66 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED