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Apple Cider · Beabadoobee

EXERCISE 24 OF 43
Groove O -- Outro 2
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART K
CHORUS 5
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCTOKG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Apple Cider on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-18, hi-hat through bars 19-24, ride through bars 25-39, hi-hat through bars 40-48 and ride through bars 49-56, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-8, 11-16 and 25-30, and 6 more places -- 48.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|----x-xx----x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x---x-|
Apple Cider -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 20, 22, 39, 40, 48, 55 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-39 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-46 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-79 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-91 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 62-76 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Apple Cider?

140 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 Apple Cider 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Apple Cider?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 20, 22, 39, 40, 48, 55 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED