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Io · Brazil

Io · Brazil
EXERCISE 21 OF 32
Groove K
129 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 4, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFHS12AL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Io on drums

165 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-35, hi-hat through bars 36-48, snare through bars 49-54, hi-hat through bars 55-70 and ride through bars 71-85, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 37-39 and 45-47, and 7 more places -- 37.7% 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+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--------x-x-----|
Io -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 48, 50, 52, 98, 100, 102 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- F -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-24 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-44 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 43-124 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Io?

168 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 Io hard to play on drums?

55 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Io?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 48, 50, 52, 98, 100, 102 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED