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Champagne Willie · Iron Front

Champagne Willie · Iron Front
EXERCISE 1 OF 85
Groove N -- Chorus
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0 / 85 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART AJ
PART C
PART I
OUTRO
12 groovesNHAJBC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Champagne Willie on drums

150 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-25, snare through bars 26-28, hi-hat through bars 29-45, snare through bars 46-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-61, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31 and 33, and 6 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Champagne Willie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 20, 21, 24 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- N, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part U -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Champagne Willie?

225 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 Champagne Willie hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Champagne Willie?

23 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 20, 21, 24 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED