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Broken Window Serenade · Whiskey Myers

EXERCISE 21 OF 22
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 192-194)
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CHORUS
PART D
PART S3
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADS3FCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Broken Window Serenade on drums

201 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-153, silence through bars 154-169 and hi-hat through bars 170-201.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-135 -- 73% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 136 and 200.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 151-201 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 170-193 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Broken Window Serenade?

150 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 Broken Window Serenade hard to play on drums?

51 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 Broken Window Serenade?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 136 and 200.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED