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cj · OLVIDIA
EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART J
PART L
OUTRO
8 groovesCTLFB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play cj on drums

123 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-84, kick and crashes through bars 85-86, snare through bars 87-88, hi-hat through bars 89-117 and silence through bars 118-123.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-14, 21-28 and 33-40, and 1 more place -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7                8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-x---x-----x-x-|x-x---x-x-x---x-|
BD |----x---x-x-----|----x-------x---|
cj -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 42, 46, 56, 60, 62, 70 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-28 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-33 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus 4 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is cj?

200 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 cj hard to play on drums?

62 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 cj?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 42, 46, 56, 60, 62, 70 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED