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Slow Dance Tune For Abigail · febuary

EXERCISE 18 OF 38
Run D1 · Chorus (bars 16-24)
47 / 65 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDKTBI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slow Dance Tune For Abigail on drums

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-18, snare through bars 19-27, hi-hat through bars 28-32, toms through bars 33-48 and snare through bars 49-65.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-26, 49-51 and 53-55 -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxx-----x-x|
Slow Dance Tune For Abigail -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 12, 18, 20, 21, 22, 28 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-29 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-40 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 37-49 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-65 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Slow Dance Tune For Abigail?

90 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 Slow Dance Tune For Abigail hard to play on drums?

47 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Slow Dance Tune For Abigail?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 12, 18, 20, 21, 22, 28 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED