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A Bird's Tweet · Bernard Gervais Burnz

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
BREAK 4
CHORUS 3
BREAK 5
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
CHORUS 8
OUTRO
10 groovesDS6S8S10S18+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Bird's Tweet on drums

154 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-22, silence through bars 23-38, hi-hat through bars 39-53, silence through bars 54-63, hi-hat through bars 64-69 and silence through bars 70-74, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 10-11 and 13-22, and 7 more places -- 94.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--------------oo|
SD |----x---x---x-xx|
T1 |----x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xx|
A Bird's Tweet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 10-96 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is A Bird's Tweet?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is A Bird's Tweet hard to play on drums?

57 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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