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Ray Charles · Dionísio Afoito Num Quarto

Ray Charles · Dionísio Afoito Num Quarto
EXERCISE 4 OF 35
Groove H -- Part H
15 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART H
PART M
PART L
CHORUS
PART T
OUTRO
9 groovesPHDMT+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ray Charles on drums

68 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 60 BPM, 3:55 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-14, hi-hat through bars 15-24, ride through bars 25-30, hi-hat through bars 31-33 and ride through bars 34-39, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-45, 47 and 52-56, and 1 more place -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x-----|
Ray Charles -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 12, 22, 26, 30, 48 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- P -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-35 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-39 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-63 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ray Charles?

60 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Ray Charles hard to play on drums?

48 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Ray Charles?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 12, 22, 26, 30, 48 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED