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Chocolate and Mint · Duster

EXERCISE 29 OF 29
Play the whole song with the record
60 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 68 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART S2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAHDS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chocolate and Mint on drums

68 bars, 4:32, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, silence through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, snare through bars 42-60 and toms through bars 61-68.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15 and 26-40 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---x---------------|
Chocolate and Mint -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 41, 44, 47, 48, 50 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- A, H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 15-54 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Chocolate and Mint?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Chocolate and Mint hard to play on drums?

58 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Chocolate and Mint?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 41, 44, 47, 48, 50 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED