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Guernica · Brand New

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART A
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART E
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBEAFS9+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Guernica on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, toms through bars 34-41, ride through bars 42-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-66, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17 and 34-41 -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
T1 |-x-----x-x----x-|
T2 |--x--x--x-x----x|
FT |---x--x----x----|
BD |x-------x----x--|
Guernica -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 49.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-37 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Guernica?

92 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 Guernica hard to play on drums?

57 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Guernica?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 49.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED