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This We Celebrate · Gaza

EXERCISE 1 OF 101
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 101 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, PART AC
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART Z
PART AC
PART AH
PART AV
PART BH
PART BP
OUTRO 2
11 groovesABPAHAVK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This We Celebrate on drums

177 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 174 BPM, 3:18 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-27, toms through bars 28-33, ride through bars 34-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-43, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 7-16 and 38, and 1 more place -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1...........2...........3...........
HH |------o-----------o-----------o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------|
This We Celebrate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 6, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BH, Y -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part V -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is This We Celebrate?

174 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is This We Celebrate hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 23 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 This We Celebrate?

24 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 6, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED