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Noodles · Shrezzers

EXERCISE 23 OF 60
Groove T -- Part T
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART AK
PART AP
OUTRO
8 groovesCLTAKAP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Noodles on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-21, hi-hat through bars 22-28, toms through bars 29-30, snare through bars 31-32 and toms through bars 33-38, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-8, 11-13 and 47-48, and 6 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.

    7                                8
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |----x-----x---x-----x---------x-|----x-----x---x---x-------x---x-|
Noodles -- 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 14, 21, 22, 26, 27, 29 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Noodles?

90 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 Noodles hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Noodles?

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 14, 21, 22, 26, 27, 29 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED