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A Cera · O Surto

A Cera · O Surto
EXERCISE 6 OF 47
Run S21 · Break (bars 8-9)
52 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK
COUNT-IN
BREAK
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART I
OUTRO
7 groovesMIDAEH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Cera on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-124 and ride through bars 125-126.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-29, 31 and 33-37, and 10 more places -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25                       26
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x--x--------|------------x--x--------|
BD |x--------x--------x-----|---x--x--x-----------x--|
A Cera -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 32, 64, 72, 100, 108 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- M -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-45 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Cera?

132 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 A Cera hard to play on drums?

60 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 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 A Cera?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 32, 64, 72, 100, 108 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED