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Dandelions · Ruth B.

Dandelions · Ruth B.
EXERCISE 9 OF 14
Run S21 · Break (bars 15-16)
55 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS6S2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dandelions on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-38, toms through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-53 and silence through bars 54-57, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 8 and 12, and 7 more places -- 53.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---------x-x---x-------|
Dandelions -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 15, 16, 39 and 40.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-41 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dandelions?

78 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 Dandelions hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Dandelions?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 15, 16, 39 and 40.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED