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Plan A · Paulo Londra

Plan A · Paulo Londra
EXERCISE 23 OF 24
Run E2 · Outro 2 (bars 49-62)
56 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEHCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Plan A on drums

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 2:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-21, snare through bars 22-24, hi-hat through bars 25-33, snare through bars 34-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-62.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 26-28, and 5 more places -- 38.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 13, 29, 45, 53, 55, 56 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Plan A?

87 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Plan A hard to play on drums?

51 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?

62 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Plan A?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 13, 29, 45, 53, 55, 56 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED