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Little Eddie · Dave Badiuk

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 12 PASSED · 76 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBAS9S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Little Eddie on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
30/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-60, kick and crashes through bars 61-68 and snare through bars 69-84, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 33-60 and 69-84, and 1 more place -- 66.7% 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
CC |x---------------|
SD |------x-------x-|
BD |x--xx-xxx--xx-x-|
Little Eddie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 22-85 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Little Eddie?

120 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 Little Eddie hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED