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Galere · Anakreenskyrider

EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove O -- Chorus
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PART D
PART F
PART I
PART S6
CHORUS
PART C
PART I
PART S14
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
12 groovesOFCIV+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Galere on drums

214 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-63, silence through bars 64-66, hi-hat through bars 67-145, silence through bars 146-148 and hi-hat through bars 149-159, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 71-73, 75-90 and 153-155, and 6 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 13, 21, 29, 37 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-102 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-51 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-72 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-93 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Galere?

230 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 Galere hard to play on drums?

55 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Galere?

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 2, 13, 21, 29, 37 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED