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EXERCISE 1 OF 82
Groove K -- Chorus
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0 / 82 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT
PART F
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AC
CHORUS 3
PART AA
PART Z
PART F
CHORUS 4
14 groovesKFAAZA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play super duper awesome on drums

168 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
83/100

toms through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-9, ride through bars 10-29, snare through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-45 and toms through bars 46-54, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 34 and 36, and 7 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |g---x---g---x---g---x---g---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----|
super duper awesome -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 29, 33, 35, 37, 61, 65 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-53 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-82 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-58 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-62 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is super duper awesome?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 super duper awesome hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 super duper awesome?

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 29, 33, 35, 37, 61, 65 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED