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Confidence · Ocean Alley

EXERCISE 14 OF 31
3-bar fill at bar 23
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0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDOAJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Confidence on drums

73 bars, 4:09, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-21, ride through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-32, ride through bars 33-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-73.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-7, 10-11 and 14-15, and 7 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x------x|x-x---x------x-x|
Confidence -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 13, 21, 23, 24, 25 and 9 more.

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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-22 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 33-42 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-69 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Confidence?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Confidence hard to play on drums?

54 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Confidence?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 13, 21, 23, 24, 25 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED