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Hills Like White Elephants · Isles & Glaciers

Hills Like White Elephants · Isles & Glaciers
EXERCISE 12 OF 63
Fill at bar 13 (a small one)
96 / 228 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART A
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART S10
PART N
PART S15
OUTRO 2
13 groovesCNJS15B+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hills Like White Elephants on drums

228 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 190 BPM, 3:36 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
190 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, silence through bars 18-19, ride through bars 20-28, hi-hat through bars 29-40 and snare through bars 41-43, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 10, and 23 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |----o---o---|
BD |x-----x---x-|
Hills Like White Elephants -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 13, 16, 23 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part S3 and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-122 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hills Like White Elephants?

190 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hills Like White Elephants 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

228 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Hills Like White Elephants?

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 13, 16, 23 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 228 BARS ANALYSED