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Kantina/Were, Are and Was or Is · Unwound

EXERCISE 5 OF 38
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
117 / 267 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART G
PART B
PART G
PART G
PART G
BREAK
CHORUS
OUTRO
9 groovesNGS9KB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kantina/Were, Are and Was or Is on drums

267 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 13:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
267
LENGTH
13:01
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 3-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22, snare through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-26 and ride through bars 27-38, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 155-157, 159 and 161, and 33 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    161
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Kantina/Were, Are and Was or Is -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 6, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- N, O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Kantina/Were, Are and Was or Is?

82 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Kantina/Were, Are and Was or Is hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

267 bars, about 13:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Kantina/Were, Are and Was or Is?

2 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 6, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 267 BARS ANALYSED