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Persiana Americana · Soda Stereo

EXERCISE 17 OF 20
2-bar fill at bar 243
242 / 244 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Persiana Americana on drums

244 bars at 203 BPM -- fast, and 4:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
203 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-36, ride through bars 37-52, hi-hat through bars 53-84, ride through bars 85-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-148, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 17, and 22 more places -- 39.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Persiana Americana -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 243 and 244.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 189-241 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Persiana Americana?

203 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 Persiana Americana hard to play on drums?

57 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

244 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 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 Persiana Americana?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 243 and 244.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 244 BARS ANALYSED