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kiss me · Ariana Grande

EXERCISE 21 OF 24
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 51-53)
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COUNT-IN
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEICFD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play kiss me on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-7, snare through bars 8-15 and hi-hat through bars 16-68.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-36, 45-51 and 68 -- 37.5% 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--x-xx-x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
kiss me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 52.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, C -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-20 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-54 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is kiss me?

100 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 kiss me hard to play on drums?

51 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in kiss me?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED