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Chốn Sa Mạc · Minh Tốc & Lam

Chốn Sa Mạc · Minh Tốc & Lam
EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove H -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHEBVS+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chốn Sa Mạc on drums

60 bars, 3:26, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-23, ride through bars 24-28, hi-hat through bars 29-31, ride through bars 32-39 and kick and crashes through bars 40-41, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-26, 28 and 32-34, and 1 more place -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x---------x-----x-----------|
Chốn Sa Mạc -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 13, 21, 23, 27, 29, 31 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, B -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-54 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Chốn Sa Mạc?

70 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 Chốn Sa Mạc hard to play on drums?

64 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Chốn Sa Mạc?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 13, 21, 23, 27, 29, 31 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED