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EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Isabella on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
29/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-70, silence through bars 71-72, kick and crashes through bars 73-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-92.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 18-19 and 22-28, and 13 more places -- 58.1% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Isabella -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 17, 21, 33, 45, 46, 50 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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, F -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-87 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Isabella?

88 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 Isabella hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Isabella?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 17, 21, 33, 45, 46, 50 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED