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Cordelia · Tragically Hip

EXERCISE 11 OF 27
Fill at bar 39 and 86 (a small one)
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0 / 27 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDAIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cordelia on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-65, toms through bars 66-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-94.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-30, 32 and 36-38, and 8 more places -- 40.4% 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---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
Cordelia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 19, 20, 34, 35, 39, 51 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 64-72 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cordelia?

90 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 Cordelia hard to play on drums?

47 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Cordelia?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 19, 20, 34, 35, 39, 51 and 7 more.

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