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Eloise · Say Anything
EXERCISE 20 OF 46
Join Chorus to Part J (bars 36-38)
75 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART J
PART S2
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFTPJS2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eloise on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-38, toms through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-50, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 7 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x---x---x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Eloise -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 36, 39, 40, 48, 72, 76 and 8 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 -- F, T -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part J and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-76 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Eloise?

125 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 Eloise hard to play on drums?

47 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:41 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, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Eloise?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 36, 39, 40, 48, 72, 76 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED