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choicess · DAVI

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove A -- Chorus
0 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesAUCMS10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play choicess on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-26, toms through bars 27-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36, snare through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-87, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 5 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    41
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
choicess -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 40, 54, 68, 69 and 70.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, U -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-41 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is choicess?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 choicess hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 choicess?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 40, 54, 68, 69 and 70.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED