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EXERCISE 11 OF 57
Groove G (a two-bar phrase)
110 / 188 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART I
PART L
PART E
PART I
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART X
8 groovesOIXEL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 10
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play gadah4 on drums

180 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
69/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-115, kick and crashes through bars 116-118 and hi-hat through bars 119-180.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 71-73, 75-77 and 91, and 10 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    71
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
gadah4 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 26, 40, 64, 89, 114, 116 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- O -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, M -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part E and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is gadah4?

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 gadah4 hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 gadah4?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 26, 40, 64, 89, 114, 116 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED