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Brief Exchange · chino moreno

Brief Exchange · chino moreno
EXERCISE 8 OF 58
Groove G -- Part G (a two-bar phrase)
80 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT
PART A
PART G
PART J
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART S10
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIACGJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Brief Exchange on drums

163 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 1-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-31, toms through bars 32-40, hi-hat through bars 41-42, snare through bars 43-45 and toms through bars 46-52, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-18, 25-29 and 53-55, and 2 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|----x-----------|
Brief Exchange -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- A, I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part G and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-145 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-64 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-101 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 115-137 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Brief Exchange?

144 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 Brief Exchange hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Brief Exchange?

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED