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Dope Calypso · Violent Soho

Dope Calypso · Violent Soho
EXERCISE 10 OF 31
Groove H -- Part H
106 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHFS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dope Calypso on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-32, hi-hat through bars 33-60, snare through bars 61-76, hi-hat through bars 77-100 and snare through bars 101-117, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 53-55, and 11 more places -- 57.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|
Dope Calypso -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 44, 52, 56 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 33-80 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 77-117 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dope Calypso?

132 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 Dope Calypso hard to play on drums?

45 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Dope Calypso?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 44, 52, 56 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED