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more than words · Hitsujibungaku

more than words · Hitsujibungaku
EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 18 PASSED · 90 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesCAFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play more than words on drums

154 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

50 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
154
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-146 and kick and crashes through bars 147-154.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-56 and 73-130 -- 58.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
more than words -- 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 17 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 -- C, A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is more than words?

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 more than words hard to play on drums?

50 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED