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Génesis · Soda Stereo

EXERCISE 11 OF 48
Groove H -- Part H
146 / 237 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART H
CHORUS
PART D
PART H
PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
BREAK 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesCJAS15S18+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Génesis on drums

237 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
237
LENGTH
7:54
DIFFICULTY
37/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-4, silence through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-31, ride through bars 32-37, hi-hat through bars 38-141 and silence through bars 142-154, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40-41, 83-85 and 87-90, and 7 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Génesis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 31, 82, 86, 102, 106, 187 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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, C -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 29-103 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 40-94 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 101-142 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 155-221 -- 10 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Génesis?

120 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 Génesis hard to play on drums?

37 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

237 bars, about 7:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 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 Génesis?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 31, 82, 86, 102, 106, 187 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 237 BARS ANALYSED