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Gypsy Road · Cinderella

EXERCISE 5 OF 28
Fill at bar 24 and 52 (a small one)
86 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBMKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gypsy Road on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-72, ride through bars 73-79, hi-hat through bars 80-97, snare through bars 98-99 and hi-hat through bars 100-117.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 25-31 and 37-51, and 4 more places -- 65.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Gypsy Road -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 32, 52, 60, 64, 71 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 24-65 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Gypsy Road?

140 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 Gypsy Road hard to play on drums?

52 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Gypsy Road?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 32, 52, 60, 64, 71 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED