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Sailor Song at Coachella · Gigi Perez

EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove R -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART A
BREAK
CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
PART AA
OUTRO
14 groovesS12RAFS5A+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sailor Song at Coachella on drums

188 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 7:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
7:56
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16, ride through bars 17-22, toms through bars 23-35, silence through bars 36-50 and toms through bars 51-63, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 68-74, 76-82 and 96-98 -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    68
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xxxx|
BD |x-------------------x-----------|
Sailor Song at Coachella -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 18, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- R -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part AA -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 34-53 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sailor Song at Coachella?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sailor Song at Coachella hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 7:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Sailor Song at Coachella?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 18, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED