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Super Taranta! · Gogol Bordello

Super Taranta! · Gogol Bordello
EXERCISE 6 OF 86
Groove E -- Part E
90 / 276 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART L
PART S19
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
23 groovesTSLS19AK+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 22
LINK · 7
SECTION · 18
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Super Taranta! on drums

276 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 11:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
276
LENGTH
11:01
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-11, toms through bars 12-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, snare through bars 37-74, silence through bars 75-85 and snare through bars 86-95, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 96-104, 188-196 and 206-226 -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    188
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Super Taranta! -- 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 11, 12, 19, 20, 130, 132 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- T, S -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-42 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-114 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Super Taranta!?

100 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 Taranta! 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

276 bars, about 11:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 20 sittings, about 28 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 Super Taranta!?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 130, 132 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 276 BARS ANALYSED