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beatrice [v1] · process: something

EXERCISE 6 OF 63
Groove A -- Part A
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PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART O
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AD
PART A
PART S12
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK 4
13 groovesHPS17DA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play beatrice [v1] on drums

138 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-23, toms through bars 24-26, snare through bars 27-56, toms through bars 57-68, ride through bars 69-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-83, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 58, and 7 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    58
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
T2 |x-x-------x-----|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
beatrice [v1] -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 25, 49, 53 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, O -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 5-17 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 13-65 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is beatrice [v1]?

178 BPM, in 4/4, 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 beatrice [v1] hard to play on drums?

53 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 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 beatrice [v1]?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 25, 49, 53 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED