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Fresh Air · Quicksilver Messenger Service

Fresh Air · Quicksilver Messenger Service
EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove D -- Part D
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PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
8 groovesIDBQH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fresh Air on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 2-39, snare through bars 40-41, ride through bars 42-45, hi-hat through bars 46-57, ride through bars 58-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-67, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-35, 38-39 and 46-49, and 3 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 40, 41, 69, 116, 117, 121 and 3 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 40-61 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 102-125 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and the Chorus 4 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fresh Air?

112 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 Fresh Air 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Fresh Air?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 40, 41, 69, 116, 117, 121 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED