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PPP · Beach House

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK 3
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK 6
8 groovesS10BGS1S5+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play PPP on drums

92 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 5:15 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
25/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-9, silence through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-22, silence through bars 23-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-29, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-9, 12-21 and 34-35, and 2 more places -- 52.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---------x-x---------x-|
PPP -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B, G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 8-47 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is PPP?

105 BPM, in 6/4, 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 PPP hard to play on drums?

25 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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