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Georgy Porgy · Toto

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove L -- Part L
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PART D
PART I
PART D
PART L
PART R
PART D
PART I
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAALDIR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Georgy Porgy on drums

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
72/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 12 more places -- 18.5% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |xxxxxxxxxxxxx-xx|
BD |x------xx-------|
Georgy Porgy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 36 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Bars 15-81 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Georgy Porgy?

98 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 Georgy Porgy hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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 Georgy Porgy?

4 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 36 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED