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Me Encontra Official · Charlie Brown Jr.

EXERCISE 14 OF 42
Groove J -- Part J (a two-bar phrase)
36 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDUBJCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Me Encontra Official on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
77/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-20, toms through bars 21-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-36, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 10, and 9 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------x-----------------------------|
HH |x-----x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
T1 |------------------x-----------------------------|
BD |x-----x--x--------------x-----x--------x--------|
Me Encontra Official -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 27 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-21 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-21 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-26 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Me Encontra Official?

95 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 Me Encontra Official hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Me Encontra Official?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 27 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED