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Send Me A Postcard · Shocking Blue

EXERCISE 4 OF 25
Groove H -- Part H
40 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART H, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
4 groovesBHS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Send Me A Postcard on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 2:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-96.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 30 more places -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-61 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Send Me A Postcard?

148 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 Send Me A Postcard hard to play on drums?

61 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Send Me A Postcard?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED