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Qwer · Qwer

Qwer · Qwer
EXERCISE 16 OF 61
Join Chorus to Part K (bars 26-28)
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0 / 61 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART K
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART P
PART V
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesJALFPV+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 5
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Qwer on drums

150 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
78/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-62, silence through bars 63-66, kick and crashes through bars 67-70, hi-hat through bars 71-88 and ride through bars 89-97, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-27, 36-43 and 54-61 -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Qwer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 11, 45, 94, 105, 117, 121 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- J, AL -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-28 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-46 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 60-74 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Qwer?

140 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 Qwer hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Qwer?

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 11, 45, 94, 105, 117, 121 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED