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Gerudo Valley · FamilyJules, Artificial Fear

Gerudo Valley · FamilyJules, Artificial Fear
EXERCISE 36 OF 47
Groove U -- Part U
76 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART U
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCQHS1S13+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gerudo Valley on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-20, snare through bars 21-25, hi-hat through bars 26-31, ride through bars 32-40 and snare through bars 41-43, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-18, 20 and 26-30, and 6 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x-x--x--x-|
Gerudo Valley -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 15, 19, 23, 31, 39, 47 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- C, Q -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-32 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-35 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part Q -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 82-88 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gerudo Valley?

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 Gerudo Valley hard to play on drums?

60 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Gerudo Valley?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 15, 19, 23, 31, 39, 47 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED