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Kiwi · Harry Styles

EXERCISE 10 OF 27
Join Part S7 to Chorus (bars 23-25)
60 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S7, CHORUS
PART B
PART S7
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
9 groovesGBMS7S1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kiwi on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-13, silence through bars 14-15, snare through bars 16-37, silence through bars 38-39 and snare through bars 40-41, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 12 more places -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Kiwi -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 17, 33, 65 and 69.

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 -- G, J -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-57 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part S7 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-74 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Kiwi?

147 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 Kiwi 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Kiwi?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 17, 33, 65 and 69.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED