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Flow · Creo
EXERCISE 19 OF 20
Run S131 · Break 5 (bars 74-75)
100 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK 5
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART E
BREAK 5
OUTRO
9 groovesBES11AS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flow on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
38/100

hi-hat through bars 3-69, silence through bars 70-73, toms through bars 74-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-108.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-9, 11-17 and 19-25, and 7 more places -- 79% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|--x-x-----------|
Flow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 74.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus 4 and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 62-76 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Flow?

128 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 Flow hard to play on drums?

38 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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 Flow?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 74.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED