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Dracula · Tame Impala

EXERCISE 17 OF 25
Join Chorus 2 to Part J (bars 61-63)
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0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART J
PART B
PART C
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBCJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dracula on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-14, hi-hat through bars 15-90 and snare through bars 91-110.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 39-45, and 7 more places -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
T1 |----------x-----|
T2 |-------x--------|
FT |------x---------|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Dracula -- 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 24 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 -- E, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-46 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-93 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dracula?

115 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 Dracula hard to play on drums?

53 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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.

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