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A Little Less Conversation · Elvis Presley

EXERCISE 11 OF 19
3-bar fill at bar 30
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0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCEBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Little Less Conversation on drums

63 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-35, toms through bars 36-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-63.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 10, and 13 more places -- 49.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-----x---x-|
BD |x-x--------x-x-x|
A Little Less Conversation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 30, 31 and 32.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-15 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is A Little Less Conversation?

118 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 A Little Less Conversation hard to play on drums?

61 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in A Little Less Conversation?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 30, 31 and 32.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED