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Come A Little Closer · Cage The Elephant

EXERCISE 25 OF 38
Groove O -- Outro
118 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDALOKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Come A Little Closer on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
49/100

ride through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-44, ride through bars 45-60, hi-hat through bars 61-110, toms through bars 111-122 and hi-hat through bars 123-128, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 11 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 40, 60, 76, 119, 120 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- D, A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 58-94 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Come A Little Closer?

148 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 Come A Little Closer hard to play on drums?

49 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Come A Little Closer?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 24, 40, 60, 76, 119, 120 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED