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Inca Roads · Frank Zappa

EXERCISE 5 OF 64
Groove D -- Part D
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PART D
BREAK
PART K
BREAK 2
PART V
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
14 groovesAFVKS8D+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Inca Roads on drums

155 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 3-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, silence through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44 and snare through bars 45-46, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 68, 70 and 72, and 10 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    68
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Inca Roads -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 45, 93, 94 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- V, AF -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part K -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 18-46 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 50-68 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Inca Roads?

116 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 Inca Roads 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Inca Roads?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 45, 93, 94 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED