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Talking With You · Sicada

EXERCISE 12 OF 52
5-bar fill at bar 32
26 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
COUNT-IN
PART E
PART L
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesREYLS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Talking With You on drums

89 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 95 BPM, 2:49 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-28, hi-hat through bars 29-32, ride through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-40 and ride through bars 41-44, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17 and 19, and 3 more places -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----x-----|
RD |--g-x---g-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x--x-x------|
Talking With You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 18 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- E -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 9-43 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-40 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-49 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-53 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Talking With You?

95 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 Talking With You hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Talking With You?

15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 18 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED