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Andy · Frank Zappa

EXERCISE 1 OF 81
Groove AE -- Chorus 3 (a two-bar phrase)
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PART H
PART AA
CHORUS
PART AG
PART AU
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART AM
PART AG
PART BN
OUTRO 2
15 groovesAEAAAGHB+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 23
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 18
LINK · 11
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Andy on drums

176 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-49, snare through bars 50-57, ride through bars 58-65 and toms through bars 66-69, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 52-53, 56-57 and 94-95, and 6 more places -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    52                                                               53
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
SD |x---x---x---x-----------------------x-x-x-x-x-------x---x-------|x-x-x-x-x---x---x---x---x-x-x-x---------------------------------|
T2 |----------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------g---------------|
BD |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
HF |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
Andy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 29, 30, 36, 38, 79, 103 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- AE, AA -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part T -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-49 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Andy?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Andy hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Andy?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 29, 30, 36, 38, 79, 103 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED