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Elizabeth · Ghost

EXERCISE 26 OF 49
Join Part N to Part F (bars 53-55)
107 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, PART F
PART B
CHORUS
PART N
PART F
PART T
OUTRO 2
5 groovesKBFTNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Elizabeth on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-28, ride through bars 29-43, hi-hat through bars 44-46, ride through bars 47-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-63, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-43, 85-99 and 101-107, and 1 more place -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Elizabeth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 8, 11, 15, 17, 21 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- K, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-48 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-55 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-68 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part F and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Elizabeth?

128 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 Elizabeth hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Elizabeth?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 8, 11, 15, 17, 21 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED