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Royal Jelly · Butterfingers

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove G -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
4 groovesGCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Royal Jelly on drums

176 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-13, snare through bars 14-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-37, ride through bars 38-61 and snare through bars 62-77, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-58, 86-106 and 150-156 -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
HH |o---o---o---o---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Royal Jelly -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 173.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- G, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Royal Jelly?

140 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 Royal Jelly hard to play on drums?

57 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 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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 Royal Jelly?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 173.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED