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Duka · Last Child
EXERCISE 5 OF 59
Run D1 · Part D (bars 5-10)
97 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART O
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCOWJD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Duka on drums

178 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-11, hi-hat through bars 12-14, silence through bars 15-21, snare through bars 22-29 and kick and crashes through bars 30-31, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 46 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-|
Duka -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 13, 47, 55, 63, 65 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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, D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-14 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 12-33 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 65-81 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part O -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 97-119 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Duka?

135 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 Duka hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Duka?

15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 13, 47, 55, 63, 65 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED