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Ceria · J-Rocks

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 33 PASSED · 90 BARS LIT
INTRO
CHORUS
PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAS4QJS+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ceria on drums

177 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
42/100

snare through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-11, snare through bars 12-29, silence through bars 30-46, hi-hat through bars 47-60 and kick and crashes through bars 61-63, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 13-27, and 5 more places -- 57% 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
CC |----x-------x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Ceria -- 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 28, 73, 74, 75, 76, 112 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, S -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Intro and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-112 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-63 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 64-118 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 115-177 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ceria?

190 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 Ceria hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Ceria?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 73, 74, 75, 76, 112 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED