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Ava Adore · Smashing Pumpkins

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove F -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFDCGIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ava Adore on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
90/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, ride through bars 16-18, hi-hat through bars 19-30, ride through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-48 and ride through bars 49-60, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-30, 48 and 64-67, and 4 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxo-xxxxxxo-xxxx|
SD |----x--g-g--x-gg|
FT |x-x-----x-x-----|
BD |x-x---g-x-x--g--|
Ava Adore -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 39, 61, 71 and 76.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-41 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ava Adore?

82 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 Ava Adore hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ava Adore?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 39, 61, 71 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED