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Acelera · Têmpora

Acelera · Têmpora
EXERCISE 15 OF 23
Join Part H to Part G (bars 87-89)
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0 / 23 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART G
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S5
PART H
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCS5GAH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Acelera on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, toms through bars 25-26, ride through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-51, silence through bars 52-80 and ride through bars 81-96, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-24, 35-50 and 97-104 -- 38.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|--------x---x-x-|
RD |----------------|--------x-x-x-x-|
HH |-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o|-o-o-o-o--------|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x---------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx--------|
Acelera -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 26.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-51 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 85-96 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Acelera?

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 Acelera hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 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 Acelera?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 26.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED