ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Арлекино (By Music Master г. Тула) on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 87 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 86
LENGTH: 3:54
DIFFICULTY: 80/100

toms through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-21, snare through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-44 and kick and crashes through bars 45-46, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-17 and 38-42 -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13                               14
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-x---x---x---x-x-x---x-|x-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|

Арлекино (By Music Master г. Тула) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Through Part D and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 20-38 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
and 6 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Арлекино (By Music Master г. Тула)?

87 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Арлекино (By Music Master г. Тула) hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Арлекино (By Music Master г. Тула)?

12 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED