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EXERCISE 25 OF 27
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 120-122)
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INTRO
PART S3
PART D
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBDS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SEROJA on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
37/100

hi-hat through bars 2-3, ride through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-9, silence through bars 10-28, hi-hat through bars 29-52 and ride through bars 53-73, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 29-30, and 20 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---|
SEROJA -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 81, 83, 99 and 115.

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 -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 41-93 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 92-116 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is SEROJA?

125 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 SEROJA hard to play on drums?

37 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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 SEROJA?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 81, 83, 99 and 115.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED