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Espresso Macchiato (Original) · Tommy Cash

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove B -- Part B
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART B
CHORUS
PART S7
PART H
PART J
PART G
OUTRO
14 groovesFBS1JS2+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Espresso Macchiato (Original) on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-42, silence through bars 43-49, hi-hat through bars 50-58, snare through bars 59-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-65, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 76-77 and 79-85 -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Espresso Macchiato (Original) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break 2 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Break 3 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 64-78 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Espresso Macchiato (Original)?

120 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 Espresso Macchiato (Original) hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 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.

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