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Breakfast At Tiffany's · Deep Blue Something

Breakfast At Tiffany's · Deep Blue Something
EXERCISE 27 OF 43
Groove S
83 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
BREAK 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART S8
PART B
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEBGS2J+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Breakfast At Tiffany's on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
87/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-13, hi-hat through bars 14-22, ride through bars 23-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42 and ride through bars 43-59, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29, 43-49 and 51-57, and 3 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x---x-|
Breakfast At Tiffany's -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 22, 30, 32, 34, 41, 42 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-46 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-70 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Bars 69-83 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Breakfast At Tiffany's?

110 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 Breakfast At Tiffany's hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Breakfast At Tiffany's?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 22, 30, 32, 34, 41, 42 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED