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Surf Nouveau · The Aqua Velvets

Surf Nouveau · The Aqua Velvets
EXERCISE 3 OF 43
Groove I -- Part I
48 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART I
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesDOS1BI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Surf Nouveau on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:38 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
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-18, ride through bars 19-30, hi-hat through bars 31-48, ride through bars 49-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-90, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-30 and 53-55, and 6 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |------x---------|
T2 |------------x-x-|
BD |x---------x-----|
Surf Nouveau -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 100, 115, 116, 119 and 120.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part O -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-44 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-49 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Surf Nouveau?

145 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Surf Nouveau 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 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 Surf Nouveau?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 36, 100, 115, 116, 119 and 120.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED