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kiwi · quarters of a change

kiwi · quarters of a change
EXERCISE 1 OF 78
Groove O -- Part O
0 / 175 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART Q
PART O
PART V
PART K
PART E
PART N
PART L
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAOVAJK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play kiwi on drums

175 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, ride through bars 41-46, hi-hat through bars 47-48, ride through bars 49-60, hi-hat through bars 61-63 and snare through bars 64-65, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42, 46 and 50, and 9 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
kiwi -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 15, 16, 48, 56, 63, 96 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- O, A, K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-82 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-113 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 6-105 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-125 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is kiwi?

130 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 kiwi hard to play on drums?

47 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 1 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in kiwi?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 15, 16, 48, 56, 63, 96 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED