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Decorating For Cinco De Mayo · Kenotia

EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove E -- Part E
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PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART U
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFERDQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Decorating For Cinco De Mayo on drums

171 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-24, hi-hat through bars 25-36, snare through bars 37-55 and toms through bars 56-64, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 12-14 and 20, and 13 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----xx|
BD |x-x-x-x---------|
Decorating For Cinco De Mayo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 36, 40 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-114 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-115 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-121 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Decorating For Cinco De Mayo?

145 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 Decorating For Cinco De Mayo hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Decorating For Cinco De Mayo?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 36, 40 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED