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new shell · Paper Cranes
EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove M -- Chorus
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PART C
PART I
PART L
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
7 groovesMLICS11+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play new shell on drums

158 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 5:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-39, toms through bars 40-47, hi-hat through bars 48-63 and snare through bars 64-65, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48, 50 and 52, and 24 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    50
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
new shell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 130, 138, 139, 140, 141 and 142.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- M, J -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-27 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-41 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-110 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is new shell?

122 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 new shell hard to play on drums?

42 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 new shell?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 130, 138, 139, 140, 141 and 142.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED