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Serenata Existencialista · O Grilo

EXERCISE 32 OF 40
Groove T -- Outro 2
60 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
PART E
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIBETLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Serenata Existencialista on drums

71 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, snare through bars 26-28, hi-hat through bars 29-45, snare through bars 46-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-62, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 38-44 and 55-61 -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 17, 25, 29, 45, 48 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- I, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-33 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-38 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Serenata Existencialista?

112 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 Serenata Existencialista hard to play on drums?

64 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 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 Serenata Existencialista?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 17, 25, 29, 45, 48 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED