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Akarsu · Anonim

EXERCISE 3 OF 14
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
55 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
6 groovesFDBS1S4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Akarsu on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 2-74.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-53 and 55-72 -- 77.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-----------x---|x-----------x---|
HH |x-x---xxx-x-o---|x-x---xxx-x-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x-xx|
T1 |------------x---|------------x---|
T2 |x---------------|x---------------|
BD |------xxx-x-----|x-x---xxx-x-----|
Akarsu -- 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 73 and 74.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 5-54 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Akarsu?

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 Akarsu hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Akarsu?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 73 and 74.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED