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Strawberry Wine · Deana Carter

Strawberry Wine · Deana Carter
EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove A -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Strawberry Wine on drums

98 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 62 BPM, 4:45 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
41/100

ride through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-21, ride through bars 22-30, hi-hat through bars 31-42, ride through bars 43-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-64, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 22-30 and 43-45, and 12 more places -- 44.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1.....2.....3.....
RD |x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |---------x--------|
BD |x-----------------|
Strawberry Wine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 38, 50, 64, 68, 76 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- A, B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 38-69 -- 10 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Strawberry Wine?

62 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Strawberry Wine hard to play on drums?

41 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 Strawberry Wine?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 38, 50, 64, 68, 76 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED