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Ethel · Russian Circles

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 8 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesES4S1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ethel on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-36, hi-hat through bars 37-49, snare through bars 50-53 and silence through bars 54-61, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10 and 12, and 17 more places -- 51.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-------------x-x---x-x-|
Ethel -- 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 7 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 -- E, D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ethel?

118 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 Ethel 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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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