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Cheques · Luis Alberto Spinetta

Cheques · Luis Alberto Spinetta
EXERCISE 12 OF 25
Run C3 · Chorus 3 (bars 28-32)
65 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART F
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cheques on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-76 and kick and crashes through bars 77-80.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 21-27 and 33-39, and 2 more places -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|--x-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x----x--x---|
BD |x-x----x-xx-----|x-x-------x--x--|
Cheques -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 20, 32, 40, 44, 56 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- F, C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-73 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 28-52 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cheques?

90 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 Cheques hard to play on drums?

59 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 20, 32, 40, 44, 56 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED