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Princess · Arakain

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove E -- Chorus 2
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PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
7 groovesEDFS2S8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Princess on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, ride through bars 29-44, hi-hat through bars 45-76 and ride through bars 77-92, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-28, 45-64 and 93-128 -- 48.4% 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
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x-----x-x-x-|
Princess -- 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 14 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 63-96 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Princess?

130 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 Princess hard to play on drums?

57 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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