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Arlekino · Geoffplaysguitar, Алла Пугачёва, Atomic heart

Arlekino · Geoffplaysguitar, Алла Пугачёва, Atomic heart
EXERCISE 17 OF 66
Groove M
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CHORUS
PART N
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART U
PART S
CHORUS 4
BREAK
OUTRO 2
13 groovesJUNTR+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Arlekino on drums

179 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-9, toms through bars 10-11, ride through bars 12-14, hi-hat through bars 15-19 and snare through bars 20-23, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54, 56 and 58, and 9 more places -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 21, 25 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- W, R -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part S3 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part S3 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 23-127 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Arlekino?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Arlekino hard to play on drums?

50 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Arlekino?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 21, 25 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED