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Flores Astrais · Secos e Molhados

EXERCISE 13 OF 40
Run J1 · Part J (bars 60-66)
80 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART S8
PART B
OUTRO
8 groovesCBS1JO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flores Astrais on drums

137 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-48, ride through bars 49-50, snare through bars 51-52 and ride through bars 53-54, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-46 and 74-79 -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Flores Astrais -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 48, 80, 104, 112, 119, 120 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 48-87 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 56-126 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 60-111 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 65-81 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 95-117 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Flores Astrais?

165 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 Flores Astrais hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Flores Astrais?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 48, 80, 104, 112, 119, 120 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED