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Postparto · Hesse Kassel

Postparto · Hesse Kassel
EXERCISE 4 OF 93
Groove B -- Part B
52 / 307 BARS COVERED
0 / 93 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART S4
PART G
PART L
PART BA
PART S26
BREAK 4
30 groovesDS31S4LBA+25Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 24
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 7
JOIN · 22
LINK · 6
SECTION · 19
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Postparto on drums

307 bars, 21:30, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
307
LENGTH
21:30
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-47, silence through bars 48-66, hi-hat through bars 67-109, kick and crashes through bars 110-115 and snare through bars 116-127, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-17, 19-24 and 26-31, and 4 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-----gg|
BD |x-----------x-------x-----------|
Postparto -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 113, 114, 141, 142, 143, 147 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 85 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part S4 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 86-115 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Postparto?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Postparto hard to play on drums?

62 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

307 bars, about 21:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 26 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Postparto?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 113, 114, 141, 142, 143, 147 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 307 BARS ANALYSED