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Cheerio · Justen de Wildt

Cheerio · Justen de Wildt
EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDJBHNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cheerio on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-50 and snare through bars 51-60, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-25 and 36-37, and 5 more places -- 49.4% 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---x---x---|
Cheerio -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 13, 38, 51, 55, 63 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-45 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-68 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-79 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cheerio?

130 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 Cheerio hard to play on drums?

57 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Cheerio?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 13, 38, 51, 55, 63 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED