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abcdefu · Our Last Night

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove P -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART T
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART S10
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesPFS10TA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play abcdefu on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-24, toms through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-45, hi-hat through bars 46-53 and snare through bars 54-59, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-35, 38-39 and 62-63, and 1 more place -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-xxxxx---------|
abcdefu -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 25, 26, 27 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- P -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-42 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part T -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-54 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 49-62 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is abcdefu?

130 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 abcdefu hard to play on drums?

45 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 abcdefu?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 25, 26, 27 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED