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Entertain Me · Tigran Hamasyan

EXERCISE 5 OF 16
Join Chorus to Part C (bars 50-52)
85 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART S3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACS3EFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Entertain Me on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom.

25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
25/100

snare through bars 1-65, silence through bars 66-72, snare through bars 73-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-104.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-50, 53-54 and 57-63, and 3 more places -- 81.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
Entertain Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 104.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 48-76 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Entertain Me?

134 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Entertain Me hard to play on drums?

25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Entertain Me?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED