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Cannonball · The Breeders

Cannonball · The Breeders
EXERCISE 16 OF 18
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
BREAK
BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEIS1S2S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cannonball on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 4:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-11, hi-hat through bars 12-38, snare through bars 39-46, hi-hat through bars 47-61 and snare through bars 62-69, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-24 and 26-37, and 5 more places -- 61.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x--g|
BD |xx-x---xx-x-----|
Cannonball -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 38, 40, 83 and 99.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 37-87 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Cannonball?

96 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 Cannonball hard to play on drums?

57 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Cannonball?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 38, 40, 83 and 99.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED