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Telephones · Vacations

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Telephones on drums

61 bars, 3:15, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-42, hi-hat through bars 43-50 and ride through bars 51-61.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 27-41 and 51-58 -- 59.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------------x--------|
Telephones -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 25, 26, 42, 59 and 60.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-61 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Telephones?

75 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Telephones 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Telephones?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 25, 26, 42, 59 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED