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Azizam · Ed Sheeran

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Azizam on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-31, snare through bars 32-35, hi-hat through bars 36-60, snare through bars 61-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-91.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-18, 22-31 and 36-51, and 4 more places -- 76.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    12
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |X-x-x-X-x-x-X-x-x-X-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Azizam -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 35, 67, 75 and 83.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 21 minutes.
  2. Bars 30-68 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Azizam?

129 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Azizam hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Azizam?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 35, 67, 75 and 83.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED