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House Party · 01. Nils Landgren Funk Unit

House Party · 01. Nils Landgren Funk Unit
EXERCISE 12 OF 41
Groove G
93 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART B
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBPJS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play House Party on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 5:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-133.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 101-107 and 109-132 -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    101
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
House Party -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 28, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- P, B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-17 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part B and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-69 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is House Party?

104 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 House Party hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in House Party?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 28, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED