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petal · Ariana grande

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove E -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART A
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
9 groovesEDAS1S3+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play petal on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-18, silence through bars 19-22, snare through bars 23-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-100.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-43, 47-52 and 54-59, and 5 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    40
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |------x-----------------|
petal -- 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 44 and 92.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-81 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-68 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is petal?

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 petal hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in petal?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 44 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED