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BOCA · Dreamcatcher

BOCA · Dreamcatcher
EXERCISE 11 OF 26
Groove G -- Part G
50 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
11 groovesFECGJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BOCA on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-29, hi-hat through bars 30-38 and snare through bars 39-54, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-37, 55-61 and 72-80 -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |---x--x----x--x-|
BD |xxx--x--xxx--x--|
BOCA -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 45, 46 and 62.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-38 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 47-63 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-71 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is BOCA?

100 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 BOCA hard to play on drums?

57 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 BOCA?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 45, 46 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED