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Abracadabra · Steve Miller

Abracadabra · Steve Miller
EXERCISE 14 OF 19
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 140-142)
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0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBHAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Abracadabra on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-141, ride through bars 142-158 and hi-hat through bars 159-160.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-16, and 26 more places -- 63.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 56, 82, 116, 141, 159 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 98-143 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Abracadabra?

126 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?

51 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Abracadabra?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 56, 82, 116, 141, 159 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED