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Cantaloupe Island - Best of Belwin Jazz · Herbie Hancock

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove C -- Chorus 2
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0 / 13 PASSED · 53 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCDFS2S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cantaloupe Island - Best of Belwin Jazz on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

49 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
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-74 and snare through bars 75-82.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-14 and 19-21, and 4 more places -- 66.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------g-----g-g-|
BD |x-x---------x---|
Cantaloupe Island - Best of Belwin Jazz -- 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 12 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Bars 13-35 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cantaloupe Island - Best of Belwin Jazz?

120 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 Cantaloupe Island - Best of Belwin Jazz hard to play on drums?

49 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED