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Acquiesce (Remastered) · Oasis

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove I -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
6 groovesIDLS1G+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Acquiesce (Remastered) on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-35, ride through bars 36-51, toms through bars 52-55, hi-hat through bars 56-73 and ride through bars 74-111, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 36-42, 44-51 and 74-94, and 7 more places -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    36               37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-----------|----------------|
RD |x-x---x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|x-------x-x---x-|
Acquiesce (Remastered) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 9, 17, 55 and 63.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- I, D -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Acquiesce (Remastered)?

110 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 Acquiesce (Remastered) hard to play on drums?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 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 Acquiesce (Remastered)?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 9, 17, 55 and 63.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED