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Gracefully · Vintage Trouble

Gracefully · Vintage Trouble
EXERCISE 6 OF 21
Join Part C to Chorus (bars 7-9)
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0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBECGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gracefully on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-49, ride through bars 50-53, hi-hat through bars 54-69, snare through bars 70-73 and ride through bars 74-77, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-5 and 7-8, and 10 more places -- 63.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    4
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|
Gracefully -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 27 and 35.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 68-81 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Gracefully?

108 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Gracefully hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 Gracefully?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 27 and 35.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED