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Elephant · Bôa

EXERCISE 26 OF 41
Groove P
71 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART E
PART K
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesOEKDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Elephant on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-34, ride through bars 35-48, hi-hat through bars 49-62 and ride through bars 63-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 69-71, and 3 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |---x--x--x--x---|
BD |x----x----x---x-|
Elephant -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 20, 24, 36, 38, 40 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- O, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Elephant?

87 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 Elephant hard to play on drums?

63 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Elephant?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 20, 24, 36, 38, 40 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED