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Elesi · Rivermaya

Elesi · Rivermaya
EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove B -- Chorus
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PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Elesi on drums

172 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 2-41, ride through bars 42-45, hi-hat through bars 46-81, ride through bars 82-85, hi-hat through bars 86-139 and ride through bars 140-143, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 72 more places -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 7 times: bars 41, 49, 81, 89, 107, 139 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 40-137 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Elesi?

151 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 Elesi hard to play on drums?

53 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Elesi?

1 fill to learn, played 7 times: bars 41, 49, 81, 89, 107, 139 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED