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BRAVE GROOVE · iLiFE

BRAVE GROOVE · iLiFE
EXERCISE 1 OF 104
Groove D -- Chorus
0 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 104 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART A
PART AA
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART L
PART BB
OUTRO
17 groovesDLSAAJ+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 5
JOIN · 21
LINK · 11
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BRAVE GROOVE on drums

185 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-56 and snare through bars 57-59, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 11-14 and 25, and 11 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 15, 34 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 85 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 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is BRAVE GROOVE?

194 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 BRAVE GROOVE hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 BRAVE GROOVE?

18 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 2, 9, 10, 15, 34 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED