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raisonne · Aston Villa
EXERCISE 30 OF 42
Fill at bar 104 (a small one)
114 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE VERSE
COUNT-IN
INTRO
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
VERSE
OUTRO
9 groovesCQHFS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play raisonne on drums

134 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 4:08 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-44, ride through bars 45-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-134.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-20, 22 and 25, and 3 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    25
    1e+a2e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x---|
BD |x-x-----|
raisonne -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 48, 104, 111, 112 and 120.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- C, H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-98 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-49 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-81 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 80-96 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 98-113 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is raisonne?

80 BPM, in 2/4, 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 raisonne hard to play on drums?

45 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 raisonne?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 48, 104, 111, 112 and 120.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED