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Cinderella · Mac Miller

EXERCISE 7 OF 29
Run C1 · Part C (bars 5-13)
56 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
BREAK 2
PART D
PART K
OUTRO
12 groovesAGHS7D+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
RUN · 5
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cinderella on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
35/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, kick and crashes through bars 15-19, hi-hat through bars 20-54, snare through bars 55-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-68, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 14 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- B, K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 14-38 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-124 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-69 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 85-132 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cinderella?

140 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 Cinderella hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED