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Cicada · Good Kid

EXERCISE 4 OF 37
Groove C
80 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBELJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cicada on drums

122 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 2:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 2-49, snare through bars 50-57, hi-hat through bars 58-81, toms through bars 82-97, snare through bars 98-99 and hi-hat through bars 100-122.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 18-24 and 42-49, and 3 more places -- 35.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Cicada -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 25, 41, 65, 73, 81, 97 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- B, E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 38-61 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 58-84 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cicada?

178 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Cicada hard to play on drums?

45 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?

122 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Cicada?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 25, 41, 65, 73, 81, 97 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED