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Copacabana (With Drums) · Barry Manilow

Copacabana (With Drums) · Barry Manilow
EXERCISE 28 OF 48
4-bar fill at bar 52
95 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCAHWAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Copacabana (With Drums) on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-26, toms through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-51 and toms through bars 52-55, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-15 and 21-23, and 12 more places -- 46.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |---x--x----x--x-|
T2 |---------------x|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Copacabana (With Drums) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 34 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH, W -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-65 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 52-71 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part W and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Copacabana (With Drums)?

110 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 Copacabana (With Drums) hard to play on drums?

59 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Copacabana (With Drums)?

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED