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O Trem Azul · Lô Borges

O Trem Azul · Lô Borges
EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove B -- Outro 2
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PART D
PART J
PART I
PART H
PART R
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBHDIJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play O Trem Azul on drums

65 bars, 3:58, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-20, ride through bars 21-26, hi-hat through bars 27-36 and ride through bars 37-43, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 6 and 24, and 7 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x-----------------|
O Trem Azul -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 9, 23, 25, 26, 36 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-22 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 32-44 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is O Trem Azul?

64 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is O Trem Azul hard to play on drums?

62 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 O Trem Azul?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 9, 23, 25, 26, 36 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED