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Espresso · Sabrina Carpenter

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove C -- Outro 2
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0 / 14 PASSED · 45 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Espresso on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 2:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-70.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 11 more places -- 64.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 54, 62 and 70.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Espresso?

104 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 hard to play on drums?

51 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 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 Espresso?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 54, 62 and 70.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED