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Autobiografia · Perfect

Autobiografia · Perfect
EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove F -- Outro
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PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFCIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Autobiografia on drums

65 bars, 4:20, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
40/100

snare through bars 3-47 and ride through bars 48-65.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 27-29 and 31-33, and 1 more place -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Autobiografia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 15, 16, 25, 26 and 46.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Autobiografia?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Autobiografia hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 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 Autobiografia?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 15, 16, 25, 26 and 46.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED