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Con · Tegan And Sara

Con · Tegan And Sara
EXERCISE 11 OF 24
Groove H
73 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Con on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-31, hi-hat through bars 32-33, snare through bars 34-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-51, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 27-29 and 31, and 14 more places -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
HF |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
Con -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 51, 61, 62, 85, 86 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- F, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Bars 13-67 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 33-63 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Con?

130 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 Con hard to play on drums?

43 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Con?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 51, 61, 62, 85, 86 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED