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Frances Limon · Enanitos Verdes

EXERCISE 21 OF 27
Join Chorus 2 to Part L (bars 135-137)
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0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART L
PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
6 groovesBAIS7L+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Frances Limon on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-104, kick and crashes through bars 105-112, snare through bars 113-120, hi-hat through bars 121-153, silence through bars 154-158 and hi-hat through bars 159-160.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 16 more places -- 69% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 72, 88, 120 and 144.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 72-121 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 117-137 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 135-153 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Frances Limon?

125 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 Frances Limon hard to play on drums?

43 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Frances Limon?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 72, 88, 120 and 144.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED