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Indigo · Sam Barber (Feat. Avery Anna)

Indigo · Sam Barber (Feat. Avery Anna)
EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCGS11KA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Indigo on drums

102 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 84 BPM, 3:39 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
31/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-37, ride through bars 38-41 and toms through bars 42-45, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-16 and 18-21, and 11 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----------|
Indigo -- 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 5, 45, 57, 85 and 97.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C, G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-34 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 36-46 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-68 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Indigo?

84 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Indigo hard to play on drums?

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Indigo?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 45, 57, 85 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED