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In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida · Iron Butterfly

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida · Iron Butterfly
EXERCISE 22 OF 66
Groove T -- Part T
436 / 511 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T
CHORUS
PART T
PART BH
PART BK
15 groovesHBHCBKD+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 9
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida on drums

511 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 17:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
511
LENGTH
17:13
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-19, snare through bars 20-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-33, hi-hat through bars 34-45 and snare through bars 46-55, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64-189 and 380-382 -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    65
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x-------x-------x---|
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 29, 55, 378, 483 and 487.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- H, BH -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BK -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-67 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 190-213 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida?

119 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 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

511 bars, about 17:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 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 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 29, 55, 378, 483 and 487.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 511 BARS ANALYSED