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Para Luna · Girlstoopid

EXERCISE 17 OF 49
Groove E
64 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART G
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART S4
PART AX
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesQAXS7GD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Para Luna on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
85/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-36, toms through bars 37-38, ride through bars 39-52, snare through bars 53-59 and ride through bars 60-79, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 88-90, 92-94 and 96-98, and 5 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    88
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Para Luna -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 1, 4, 12, 16, 18, 19 and 55 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 -- AX -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-29 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Para Luna?

110 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 Para Luna hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Para Luna?

14 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 1, 4, 12, 16, 18, 19 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED