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Strawberry Tea · Tiny Tim

Strawberry Tea · Tiny Tim
EXERCISE 5 OF 7
Run C1 · Outro (bars 47-57)
15 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 7 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
BREAK 2
BREAK 4
PART B
BREAK 5
OUTRO
BREAK 6
7 groovesS2S8S4CS6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Strawberry Tea on drums

72 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 2:42 of playing on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

13 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
13/100

ride through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-18, ride through bars 19-20, silence through bars 21-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36 and ride through bars 37-38, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-55 -- 42.9% 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+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----------|
Strawberry Tea -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- C, B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Strawberry Tea?

80 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Strawberry Tea hard to play on drums?

13 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED