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Could It Be So? · Kingston Wall

Could It Be So? · Kingston Wall
EXERCISE 1 OF 110
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AO
PART BF
PART AP
PART BW
OUTRO
9 groovesAAAAOAPG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 33
LAND · 33
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Could It Be So? on drums

165 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
82/100

ride through bars 1-44, toms through bars 45-46, ride through bars 47-48, toms through bars 49-54, ride through bars 55-78 and toms through bars 79-80, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 17 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |X-----------------------------------------------|
RD |---------x-----x--x-----x--------x-----x--x-----|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Could It Be So? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

33 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 14 and 68 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BS -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-77 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Could It Be So??

127 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Could It Be So? hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 24 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Could It Be So??

33 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 14 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED