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99 Red Balloons · Goldfinger

99 Red Balloons · Goldfinger
EXERCISE 24 OF 46
Groove Q -- Part Q (a two-bar phrase)
82 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART N
PART Q
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
9 groovesJS1BNAA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 99 Red Balloons on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, ride through bars 53-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-80, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 5 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
99 Red Balloons -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34 and 24 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 -- J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-77 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-56 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 67-77 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 99 Red Balloons?

150 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 99 Red Balloons hard to play on drums?

63 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 99 Red Balloons?

8 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED