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Primaveral · Mon Laferte

EXERCISE 5 OF 14
Fill at bar 21 and 62
77 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Primaveral on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 2-21, ride through bars 22-46, hi-hat through bars 47-62 and ride through bars 63-87.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-29, 31-37 and 39-45, and 3 more places -- 50% 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
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Primaveral -- 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 21 and 62.

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 -- E, B -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Primaveral?

100 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 Primaveral hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 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 Primaveral?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 21 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED