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Flake · Jack Johnson

Flake · Jack Johnson
EXERCISE 6 OF 21
Fill at bar 25 and 57
56 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGDJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flake on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-41, hi-hat through bars 42-57, ride through bars 58-81 and hi-hat through bars 82-87.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-29, 31-32 and 34-40, and 3 more places -- 43% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 53 and 57.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- G, D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 46-81 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Flake?

96 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 Flake 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?

87 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Flake?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 53 and 57.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED