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I'm A Cloud · Boy Hits Car

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
10 groovesBCEKS1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I'm A Cloud on drums

171 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-14, kick and crashes through bars 15-16, silence through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-56, toms through bars 57-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-88, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-40, 65-72 and 97, and 6 more places -- 49.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    65               66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|----x-----x-----|
BD |x---x-------x---|x-------x---x---|
HF |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
I'm A Cloud -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 84 and 136.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 62-85 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 107-153 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I'm A Cloud?

180 BPM, in 4/4, 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 I'm A Cloud hard to play on drums?

56 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 I'm A Cloud?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 84 and 136.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED