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Dakota · Stereophonics

EXERCISE 9 OF 12
Join Part D to Chorus 2 (bars 35-37)
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0 / 12 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 7
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dakota on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, snare through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-40, snare through bars 41-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-64, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 14 more places -- 52% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Dakota -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Dakota?

147 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 Dakota hard to play on drums?

50 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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