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Promises Full · Cranberries

EXERCISE 22 OF 28
Run H1 · Part H (bars 134-143)
151 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFBS1HFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Promises Full on drums

166 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 6:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

36 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
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
6:19
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-47, hi-hat through bars 48-53, snare through bars 54-55, hi-hat through bars 56-61 and snare through bars 62-63, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-17, 19-21 and 23-25, and 13 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Promises Full -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 46, 47, 55, 63, 71, 94 and 9 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 -- B, F, G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 44-102 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 96-144 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 134-166 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Promises Full?

105 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 Promises Full hard to play on drums?

36 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 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 6:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Promises Full?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 46, 47, 55, 63, 71, 94 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED