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Giorgio by Moroder · Daft Punk

EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove F -- Part F
0 / 247 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 62 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 2, PART Q
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
BREAK 5
PART S15
PART P
17 groovesIFPS15S14+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Giorgio by Moroder on drums

247 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 8:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
247
LENGTH
8:44
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-17, hi-hat through bars 18-44, snare through bars 45-70, hi-hat through bars 71-102 and snare through bars 103-119, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-44, 71-102 and 126, and 2 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Giorgio by Moroder -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- F, I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-48 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 67-106 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 128-134 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part S15 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part S15 and Part AH -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Giorgio by Moroder?

113 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 Giorgio by Moroder hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

247 bars, about 8:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Giorgio by Moroder?

7 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 247 BARS ANALYSED