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California · Phantom Planet

California · Phantom Planet
EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove D -- Part D
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDS1HFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play California on drums

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-42, ride through bars 43-46 and snare through bars 47-63.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-17, 27-34 and 51-57 -- 34.5% 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
CC |x---------------|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
California -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 26, 38, 42, 58, 59, 60 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 10-27 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is California?

78 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 California hard to play on drums?

37 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in California?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 26, 38, 42, 58, 59, 60 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED