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Reena · sonic youth

EXERCISE 8 OF 42
Groove D
87 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS 2, PART G
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART M
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAIMEK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Reena on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-54, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 25-28 and 31, and 19 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 32, 52, 85, 86, 87 and 5 more.

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 -- A, G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-56 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 9-33 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-52 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Reena?

145 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 Reena hard to play on drums?

58 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Reena?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 32, 52, 85, 86, 87 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED