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Hemingway · Negrita

Hemingway · Negrita
EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 47 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART F
PART K
OUTRO
7 groovesBFAKI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hemingway on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-35, ride through bars 36-50, hi-hat through bars 51-95, ride through bars 96-105 and hi-hat through bars 106-116, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13 and 15, and 10 more places -- 34.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 48, 96, 104, 116, 128 and 140.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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, F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-57 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 64-97 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 94-109 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hemingway?

135 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 Hemingway hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Hemingway?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 48, 96, 104, 116, 128 and 140.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED