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Colombiana · Airbag

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCNIBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Colombiana on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
45/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-46, ride through bars 47-54, hi-hat through bars 55-72 and ride through bars 73-78.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17 and 19, and 3 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Colombiana -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 30, 31, 32, 40, 42, 43 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, N -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Colombiana?

92 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 Colombiana 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Colombiana?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 30, 31, 32, 40, 42, 43 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED