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Centerfold · J Geils Band

Centerfold · J Geils Band
EXERCISE 12 OF 19
Fill at bar 20, 36 and 40 (a small one)
85 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Centerfold on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare 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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-79 and snare through bars 80-101.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-15 and 21-23, and 11 more places -- 46.9% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Centerfold -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 28, 36 and 6 more.

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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Centerfold?

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 Centerfold 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Centerfold?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 28, 36 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED