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Champagne & Reefer · Muddy Waters

Champagne & Reefer · Muddy Waters
EXERCISE 6 OF 7
Join Outro to Break (bars 52-54)
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OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Champagne & Reefer on drums

79 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 104 BPM, 4:32 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
41/100

hi-hat through bars 3-53 and silence through bars 54-79.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-35, 37-44 and 48-52 -- 90.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x-----x-|
Champagne & Reefer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 45 and 46.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Champagne & Reefer?

104 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Champagne & Reefer hard to play on drums?

41 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Champagne & Reefer?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 45 and 46.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED