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Delicate · HEADPLATE

Delicate · HEADPLATE
EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove D -- Chorus
0 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 42 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDUKBAB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Delicate on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
81/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-9, snare through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, snare through bars 22-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-35, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 18-20 and 22-24, and 12 more places -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-x-------x---|
Delicate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 21, 25, 27, 39, 41, 43 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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, U -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus 3 and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Delicate?

100 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 Delicate hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Delicate?

15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 21, 25, 27, 39, 41, 43 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED