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Drunken Dwarves (correct · Wind Rose

EXERCISE 33 OF 73
Run D2 · Chorus 2 (bars 41-64)
130 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO
7 groovesDPAJS13+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drunken Dwarves (correct on drums

176 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:52
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-88, snare through bars 89-94, toms through bars 95-96, hi-hat through bars 97-119, toms through bars 120-121 and silence through bars 122-124, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 41-47, and 10 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Drunken Dwarves (correct -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 38 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part P and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Drunken Dwarves (correct?

120 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 Drunken Dwarves (correct hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Drunken Dwarves (correct?

20 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 32, 38 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED