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Abracadabra · Lady Gaga

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove F -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFGDS1C+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Abracadabra on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
32/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-20, snare through bars 21-35, kick and crashes through bars 36-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-45, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-40, 46-50 and 56-60, and 4 more places -- 46.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |--x---x---x---x-|
Abracadabra -- 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 27 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 -- F, G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-25 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-65 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 62-96 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Abracadabra?

120 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 Abracadabra hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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