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birds of a feather · Kind of Like Spitting

birds of a feather · Kind of Like Spitting
EXERCISE 2 OF 38
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 38 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART F, PART D
PART C
PART E
PART I
PART F
PART Q
PART D
PART I
OUTRO
9 groovesVFIQD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play birds of a feather on drums

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-71.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-57, 60-61 and 64-65, and 1 more place -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    56
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---o---|
SD |--------x-----xx--x-----x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-----x-----x---------|
birds of a feather -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 26, 50, 54, 58 and 66.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Bars 4-23 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 12-18 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is birds of a feather?

94 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 birds of a feather hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

71 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 14 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 birds of a feather?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 26, 50, 54, 58 and 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED