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Terrapin · Clairo

EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove B -- Outro
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0 / 7 PASSED · 90 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBFS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Terrapin on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
38/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-11, silence through bars 12-14 and hi-hat through bars 15-102.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 2 more places -- 90.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------r-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Terrapin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Terrapin?

137 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 Terrapin hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED