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Equestria Girls (Cafeteria Song) · My Little Pony

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove J -- Chorus
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PART A
PART B
PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART B
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJBAHS10+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Equestria Girls (Cafeteria Song) on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
45/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-51, kick and crashes through bars 52-53 and silence through bars 54-57, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 37-39, and 7 more places -- 35.6% 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-----|
Equestria Girls (Cafeteria Song) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- J, B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-21 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-45 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-61 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Equestria Girls (Cafeteria Song)?

100 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 Equestria Girls (Cafeteria Song) hard to play on drums?

45 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 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 Equestria Girls (Cafeteria Song)?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED