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EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play the AWESOME song :) on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
33/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, toms through bars 11-50, kick and crashes through bars 51-58 and toms through bars 59-114.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-26, 35-50 and 59-74, and 1 more place -- 70.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-----------x-x-|
the AWESOME song :) -- 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 18 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-30 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 31-51 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-114 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is the AWESOME song :)?

120 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 the AWESOME song :) hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED