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Flipping · Candy

EXERCISE 5 OF 33
Groove D -- Part D
38 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHDOS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flipping on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
63/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-26, toms through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-51, snare through bars 52-60 and silence through bars 61-64, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-21 and 23-26, and 8 more places -- 40.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    16
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
Flipping -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-60 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Flipping?

117 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 Flipping hard to play on drums?

63 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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.

How many fills are in Flipping?

8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED