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E85 · Don Toliver

E85 · Don Toliver
EXERCISE 17 OF 17
Play the whole song with the record
68 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 76 BARS LIT
CHORUS
BREAK
PART S3
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
BREAK 3
CHORUS 3
BREAK 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFS2S3S9E+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play E85 on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
36/100

snare through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-64, silence through bars 65-67 and snare through bars 68-76.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-31, 33-35 and 37-39, and 3 more places -- 47.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-o-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x---------x---|--x-x-----------|
HF |----------------|--------------x-|
E85 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 54.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- F, H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-55 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 54-76 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is E85?

132 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 E85 hard to play on drums?

36 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in E85?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 54.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED