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PAPERMOON · Tommy Heavenly6

PAPERMOON · Tommy Heavenly6
EXERCISE 24 OF 59
Hold Groove O for 8 bars -- Chorus (bars 27-34)
139 / 172 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesOCHVYFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play PAPERMOON on drums

172 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:10 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-10, toms through bars 11-26, hi-hat through bars 27-49, snare through bars 50-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-62, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 35 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
PAPERMOON -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 56 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-34 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-78 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 71-109 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is PAPERMOON?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is PAPERMOON hard to play on drums?

56 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 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 PAPERMOON?

16 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED