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Cloud 9 · Beach Bunny

EXERCISE 11 OF 25
Groove G -- Outro 2
71 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART E
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAEBKH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cloud 9 on drums

94 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 2:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-14, toms through bars 15-22, hi-hat through bars 23-44, toms through bars 45-52, hi-hat through bars 53-77 and ride through bars 78-85, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 31-41 and 61-68 -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Cloud 9 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 14, 44 and 93.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-23 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-68 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 75-79 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cloud 9?

162 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 Cloud 9 hard to play on drums?

50 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Cloud 9?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 14, 44 and 93.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED