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Retrovisor · Caramelos De Cianuro

EXERCISE 19 OF 27
Join Chorus 3 to Outro (bars 89-91)
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PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART H
BREAK 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDHAKS8+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Retrovisor on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
27/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-49, hi-hat through bars 50-64, silence through bars 65-72, snare through bars 73-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-113.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 14 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Retrovisor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 40, 52, 60, 72, 80, 92 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- E, H, B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-65 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Break 3 and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 89-109 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Retrovisor?

120 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 Retrovisor hard to play on drums?

27 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Retrovisor?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 40, 52, 60, 72, 80, 92 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED