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Espada · Clayton King, Spiro

Espada · Clayton King, Spiro
EXERCISE 4 OF 58
Groove B -- Part B
25 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART P
BREAK
PART U
CHORUS
BREAK 2
PART AG
PART AH
PART S18
OUTRO
19 groovesOS18RAGB+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 5
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Espada on drums

153 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 122 BPM, 3:56 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-21, silence through bars 22-24 and snare through bars 25-40, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-29, 34 and 51, and 4 more places -- 7.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    57
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x---x-x---x---x-x-x---x-|
Espada -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 36, 56, 67, 89, 90 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- O -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 5-21 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Espada?

122 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Espada hard to play on drums?

61 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 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Espada?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 36, 56, 67, 89, 90 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED