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EXERCISE 4 OF 37
Groove S
82 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P, PART W
PART A
CHORUS
PART P
PART W
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCPAWYFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Donation on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-68, kick and crashes through bars 69-71, hi-hat through bars 72-140 and kick and crashes through bars 141-151.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-28, 34-40 and 42-47, and 7 more places -- 40.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    24
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Donation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 58, 68, 95, 132, 140, 141 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C, A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Donation?

127 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 Donation hard to play on drums?

55 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Donation?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 58, 68, 95, 132, 140, 141 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED