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sraka paka · dupa ptaka

sraka paka · dupa ptaka
EXERCISE 23 OF 67
4-bar fill at bar 49
125 / 205 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART E
PART L
PART K
CHORUS
PART AA
PART AC
PART B
OUTRO
9 groovesWLKBAA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play sraka paka on drums

205 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 4:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-15, toms through bars 16-22, snare through bars 23-26, hi-hat through bars 27-41 and snare through bars 42-68, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 10-11, and 15 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 25, 49, 50 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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, L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-44 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-53 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 41-83 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-115 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is sraka paka?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is sraka paka hard to play on drums?

52 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?

205 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in sraka paka?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 25, 49, 50 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED