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Drain Me! · Towa Bird

Drain Me! · Towa Bird
EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 41 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART C
BREAK 3
OUTRO
8 groovesBCS6ED+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drain Me! on drums

62 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 1:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare 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
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 3-34, silence through bars 35-38, hi-hat through bars 39-42, silence through bars 43-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-62.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-17, 19-29 and 31-34, and 1 more place -- 78.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Drain Me! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 18 and 62.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-38 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-49 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Drain Me!?

125 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 Drain Me! 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Drain Me!?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 18 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED