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feminine adornments · Julie

EXERCISE 7 OF 68
Groove E
50 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIBTCH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
JOIN · 12
LINK · 12
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play feminine adornments on drums

169 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-36, snare through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-44, snare through bars 45-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-70, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 18 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
feminine adornments -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 35, 36, 49, 50, 51, 52 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is feminine adornments?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is feminine adornments hard to play on drums?

54 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 feminine adornments?

10 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 35, 36, 49, 50, 51, 52 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED