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Hello Juliet [Standard Tuning] · Clarion

EXERCISE 20 OF 49
Groove P
73 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART B
CHORUS
PART L
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART Q
PART T
OUTRO
8 groovesFTMBL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hello Juliet [Standard Tuning] on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
68/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-26, hi-hat through bars 27-52, ride through bars 53-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-68, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 45-51 and 101-107 -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x--g----x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Hello Juliet [Standard Tuning] -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 20, 21, 22 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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, L -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-37 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 60-70 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hello Juliet [Standard Tuning]?

138 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 Hello Juliet [Standard Tuning] hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Hello Juliet [Standard Tuning]?

9 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 20, 21, 22 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED