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Double Bass · Gorillaz

EXERCISE 1 OF 6
Groove A -- Verse
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VERSE
VERSE 2
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Double Bass on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 4:40 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-59, silence through bars 60-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-59, 62-66 and 69-97 -- 97.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----xx-x--xx-|
Double Bass -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Double Bass?

83 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 Double Bass hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED