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Tikawahukwa · Ultra Vomit

EXERCISE 16 OF 55
Groove M -- Part M
28 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART G
PART M
CHORUS
PART AB
BREAK
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesSGABAKAH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tikawahukwa on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-20, snare through bars 21-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-34, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11 and 13-15 -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x--x--x---x--xx-|
Tikawahukwa -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- G -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S, AH -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-69 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part AB -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part AB -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tikawahukwa?

128 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 Tikawahukwa hard to play on drums?

57 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Tikawahukwa?

12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED