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Native Dance · B'Z

EXERCISE 6 OF 48
Hold Groove C for 8 bars -- Intro (bars 2-9)
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0 / 48 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE INTRO
INTRO
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCSFWJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Native Dance on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 3-108, kick and crashes through bars 109-112, snare through bars 113-114 and hi-hat through bars 115-141.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5-7 and 17-19, and 24 more places -- 53.2% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Native Dance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 2, 13, 14, 15, 16, 24 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, J -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Intro and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part S -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 94-109 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Native Dance?

128 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 Native Dance hard to play on drums?

59 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Native Dance?

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 2, 13, 14, 15, 16, 24 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED