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Apostrophe' · Frank Zappa, Jack Bruce, Jim Gordon

Apostrophe' · Frank Zappa, Jack Bruce, Jim Gordon
EXERCISE 21 OF 84
5-bar fill at bar 24
61 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART AE
CHORUS 2
PART AL
PART AN
PART AB
OUTRO 2
9 groovesOAABANAE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Apostrophe' on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 5:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
5:57
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-6, hi-hat through bars 7-24, ride through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-39 and ride through bars 40-51, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-18, 35 and 49, and 8 more places -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    96
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx----x-x-----|
Apostrophe' -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 53 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- O, AB -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part A and Part AE -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part AE and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Apostrophe'?

84 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 Apostrophe' hard to play on drums?

55 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 5:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Apostrophe'?

21 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED