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demo1 · ambroz
EXERCISE 15 OF 79
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-16)
112 / 255 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART H
PART M
PART O
PART T
CHORUS
PART AF
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART O
OUTRO 2
16 groovesACABAFOT+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play demo1 on drums

250 bars, 14:03, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
250
LENGTH
14:03
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-41, ride through bars 42-73, hi-hat through bars 74-81, snare through bars 82-89, ride through bars 90-108 and hi-hat through bars 109-116, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 90-105, 159-174 and 191-206 -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    90
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-x-----x-x-|
RD |x-x-----x-x-----|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
demo1 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 14, 24, 28 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- AC -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF, T -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-78 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is demo1?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is demo1 hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

250 bars, about 14:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 demo1?

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 14, 24, 28 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 250 BARS ANALYSED