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Julia · Mt. Joy

Julia · Mt. Joy
EXERCISE 5 OF 29
Groove G -- Verse
22 / 63 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
VERSE
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART U
9 groovesBUGJC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Julia on drums

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-34, toms through bars 35-37, hi-hat through bars 38-51, ride through bars 52-59 and silence through bars 60-61, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 10 and 15-21, and 1 more place -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
Julia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B, U -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 6-25 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Julia?

83 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 Julia hard to play on drums?

49 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 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 Julia?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED