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China Lady · Accept

EXERCISE 19 OF 35
Groove N
126 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART F
PART M
PART F
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
6 groovesLFJMB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play China Lady on drums

142 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-17, ride through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-49 and snare through bars 50-77, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 58-68 and 94-104, and 2 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
HF |----x---x---x---|
China Lady -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 41, 57, 77, 93, 105, 113 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- L, F -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-49 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-53 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 53-94 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is China Lady?

150 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 China Lady hard to play on drums?

46 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 China Lady?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 41, 57, 77, 93, 105, 113 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED