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Cake By The Ocean (Ver. 1) · Dnce

EXERCISE 9 OF 16
Join Verse to Break 2 (bars 35-37)
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0 / 16 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE, BREAK 2
PART B
VERSE
BREAK 2
PART B
CHORUS
VERSE 2
7 groovesEFBS1S8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cake By The Ocean (Ver. 1) on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-36, silence through bars 37-38, hi-hat through bars 39-78, silence through bars 79-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-106.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 30 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |-xxxx-xxxxxxx-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Cake By The Ocean (Ver. 1) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-29 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-48 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cake By The Ocean (Ver. 1)?

119 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 Cake By The Ocean (Ver. 1) hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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