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Flowers · A Day To Remember

EXERCISE 27 OF 50
2-bar fill at bar 44 and 1 more
87 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E, CHORUS 2
PART E
PART I
PART M
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART V
OUTRO 2
9 groovesQEMIV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flowers on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-13, toms through bars 14-21, hi-hat through bars 22-27, toms through bars 28-29 and snare through bars 30-43, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-36, 38-43 and 66-72, and 3 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Flowers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 9, 21, 28, 29, 37 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- Q, E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-58 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-22 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-38 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-65 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 81-106 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Flowers?

150 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 Flowers hard to play on drums?

52 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Flowers?

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 9, 21, 28, 29, 37 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED