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Elegance of Irony · Groza

EXERCISE 22 OF 91
Join Part G to Part B (bars 41-43)
192 / 278 BARS COVERED
0 / 91 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART B
PART B
PART D
PART G
PART B
PART S
CHORUS
PART N
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAANSBG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 12
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Elegance of Irony on drums

278 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 7:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
278
LENGTH
7:37
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-68, ride through bars 69-76, hi-hat through bars 77-78 and snare through bars 79-81, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 90-104, 158-164 and 166-172, and 4 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    90
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Elegance of Irony -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 25, 41, 49 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N, B -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-184 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-61 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part S -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Elegance of Irony?

146 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 Elegance of Irony hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

278 bars, about 7:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Elegance of Irony?

19 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 25, 41, 49 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 278 BARS ANALYSED