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Milonga · Fresno

Milonga · Fresno
EXERCISE 4 OF 44
Groove N -- Part N (a two-bar phrase)
64 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
PART I
PART J
PART L
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBQJLN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Milonga on drums

159 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 3-50, kick and crashes through bars 51-57, hi-hat through bars 58-114, snare through bars 115-116, toms through bars 117-118 and snare through bars 119-124, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-33 and 147-154 -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7                8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-x-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----------x-|----------------|
Milonga -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 42, 98, 114, 118, 120, 122 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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, Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 32-40 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-62 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Milonga?

130 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 Milonga hard to play on drums?

49 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Milonga?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 42, 98, 114, 118, 120, 122 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED