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Promise · Akira Yamaoka

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDKCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Promise on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
60/100

ride through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-84 and kick and crashes through bars 85-86.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-11 and 14-20, and 10 more places -- 49.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    7
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x--x-----------|
Promise -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 12, 36, 48, 52, 55 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, C -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Promise?

86 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Promise hard to play on drums?

60 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 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 Promise?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 12, 36, 48, 52, 55 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED