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Congratulations · MGMT

EXERCISE 4 OF 17
Groove C -- Part C
87 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Congratulations on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, ride through bars 41-46, kick and crashes through bars 47-50, hi-hat through bars 51-90, ride through bars 91-97 and snare through bars 98-100, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-23, 25-31 and 33-39, and 5 more places -- 69.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 100 and 116.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 97-117 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Congratulations?

125 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 Congratulations 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Congratulations?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 100 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED