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Let's Groove · Earth, Wind & Fire

EXERCISE 15 OF 21
Groove H
171 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Let's Groove on drums

178 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 5:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 2-178.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-17, 20-26 and 28-41, and 10 more places -- 79.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x---------------|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Let's Groove -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 18, 42, 74, 82, 84 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Let's Groove?

123 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 Let's Groove hard to play on drums?

58 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 5:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Let's Groove?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 18, 42, 74, 82, 84 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED