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Cannabis · Ska-P

Cannabis · Ska-P
EXERCISE 32 OF 41
Run Q1 · Part Q (bars 223-226)
215 / 271 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
VERSE
CHORUS 2
PART F
VERSE 2
CHORUS 3
VERSE 3
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesIDFS1J+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cannabis on drums

271 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 4:31 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
271
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-55, kick and crashes through bars 56-57, toms through bars 58-59 and kick and crashes through bars 60-63, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64-78, 127-141 and 167-181, and 2 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    65
    1e+a2e+a
HH |xxxxxxxx|
SD |----x---|
BD |x-------|
Cannabis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 23, 24, 32, 40, 59, 82 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- I, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-63 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 60-87 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse 3 and Part S13 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 223-258 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cannabis?

120 BPM, in 2/4, 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 Cannabis hard to play on drums?

60 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

271 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Cannabis?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 23, 24, 32, 40, 59, 82 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 271 BARS ANALYSED