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Beaches · Beabadoobee

EXERCISE 13 OF 33
Join Chorus to Part C (bars 24-26)
58 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDCLQS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beaches on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-51 and toms through bars 52-62, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-18, 20 and 22-24, and 6 more places -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 33, 42, 62, 69, 76 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-43 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 52-69 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Beaches?

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 Beaches hard to play on drums?

47 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 Beaches?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 33, 42, 62, 69, 76 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED