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EXERCISE 7 OF 67
Groove R -- Part R
42 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S, PART R
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART R
PART AD
PART AK
13 groovesDSADAKAA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pawana on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-16, toms through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-48, toms through bars 49-65 and snare through bars 66-77, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-15, and 10 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 18, 21, 22 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R, AA -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part Q and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-76 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 77-95 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pawana?

135 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 Pawana hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 Pawana?

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 18, 21, 22 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED