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Celebration Song · Unwritten Law

Celebration Song · Unwritten Law
EXERCISE 3 OF 36
Groove C
98 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART K
OUTRO
5 groovesAFEKS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Celebration Song on drums

159 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, silence through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-102, snare through bars 103-104 and hi-hat through bars 105-159.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 13-15 and 33-44, and 9 more places -- 44.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 28, 64, 68, 102, 103 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- A, E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-18 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-85 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Celebration Song?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Celebration Song hard to play on drums?

52 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Celebration Song?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 28, 64, 68, 102, 103 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED