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Flowery · Versailles

EXERCISE 1 OF 76
Groove J -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJOANAFAK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flowery on drums

163 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
80/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-15, snare through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-19 and ride through bars 20-21, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14 and 34-40, and 5 more places -- 23.9% 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 |o-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Flowery -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 15 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-37 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AF -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part AF and Part AK -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part AK and Part AN -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Flowery?

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 Flowery hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Flowery?

21 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 15 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED