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Candy · Paolo Nutini

EXERCISE 20 OF 27
2-bar fill at bar 103
90 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBS1IKS3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Candy on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-77, silence through bars 78-83, hi-hat through bars 84-92, toms through bars 93-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-111.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-17, 19 and 21-27, and 12 more places -- 61.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Candy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 52, 68, 76, 96, 103 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 20-92 -- 8 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 91-98 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 93-106 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Candy?

125 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 Candy hard to play on drums?

46 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Candy?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 52, 68, 76, 96, 103 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED