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The Choreographer · Lower Definition

The Choreographer · Lower Definition
EXERCISE 1 OF 97
Groove BG -- Outro
0 / 214 BARS COVERED
0 / 97 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART H
PART J
CHORUS
PART AG
PART AM
CHORUS 2
PART AT
OUTRO
13 groovesPBGHJY+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Choreographer on drums

214 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 4:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, snare through bars 37-111, hi-hat through bars 112-115 and toms through bars 116-123, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 185-208 -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    185
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|
The Choreographer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- BG, AT -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-87 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Choreographer?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Choreographer hard to play on drums?

51 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Choreographer?

22 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED