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Flower Tone · The Band Apart

Flower Tone · The Band Apart
EXERCISE 6 OF 59
Groove D
40 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART V
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCVTHK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flower Tone on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-40, toms through bars 41-42, ride through bars 43-50, hi-hat through bars 51-62 and snare through bars 63-64, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 4 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Flower Tone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 40, 41, 42 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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, H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-44 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-54 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Flower Tone?

133 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 Flower Tone hard to play on drums?

61 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Flower Tone?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 40, 41, 42 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED