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Little Green Bag · George Baker Selection

Little Green Bag · George Baker Selection
EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove G -- Outro 2
0 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 59 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesGCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Little Green Bag on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:19 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-83 -- 71.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Little Green Bag -- 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 9 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 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Little Green Bag?

100 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 Green Bag hard to play on drums?

44 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED