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Hit Me Like a Piñata · Her Last Sight, Alon Lifshitz, Ofek Asulin, Liron Avital, Liron Avital, Nir Schwartz

Hit Me Like a Piñata · Her Last Sight, Alon Lifshitz, Ofek Asulin, Liron Avital, Liron Avital, Nir Schwartz
EXERCISE 22 OF 74
Groove K -- Part K
77 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART A
PART K
CHORUS
PART Q
PART K
PART AI
PART AK
PART Q
OUTRO
14 groovesNQAIAK+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 5
JOIN · 15
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hit Me Like a Piñata on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-69, hi-hat through bars 70-73, silence through bars 74-76 and toms through bars 77-80, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 48-52 and 58-60, and 2 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|
Hit Me Like a Piñata -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 6, 12, 14, 22, 23 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- N, Q -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 21-70 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 17-73 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hit Me Like a Piñata?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Hit Me Like a Piñata hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 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 Hit Me Like a Piñata?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 6, 12, 14, 22, 23 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED