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EXERCISE 4 OF 49
Groove AM -- Part AM (a two-bar phrase)
18 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AM
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART R
PART S6
PART AJ
PART AM
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesMS6EAWR+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Le 30E Dragons - #3 on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-38, ride through bars 39-43 and silence through bars 44-50, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-19, 22-23 and 77-82 -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18                                               19
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------x-----------x-----------------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
RD |------------------------------------------------|------x-----------x-----------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----------x-----------x-----x-----|------------------------------x-----------x-----|
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--------------|x-----------x--------------x-----x-----x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--x--x--x--|x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Le 30E Dragons - #3 -- 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 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AM -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-43 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Le 30E Dragons - #3?

120 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 Le 30E Dragons - #3 hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Le 30E Dragons - #3?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED