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Ay Ay Ay · ladrones

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove G -- Chorus
0 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART L
PART W
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART W
BREAK 4
10 groovesS12GWLAG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ay Ay Ay on drums

132 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 210 BPM, 3:35 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-18, ride through bars 19-20, snare through bars 21-25, ride through bars 26-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-36, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 57-58, and 1 more place -- 9.9% 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+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x---x-------x-x-x-x-|
Ay Ay Ay -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 16, 19, 20, 24, 32 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W, B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part W -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ay Ay Ay?

210 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Ay Ay Ay hard to play on drums?

42 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Ay Ay Ay?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 16, 19, 20, 24, 32 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED