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TO THE FLOWERS [Best Version WIP] · While She Sleeps

EXERCISE 3 OF 43
Groove O -- Part O
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART T
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDOTS1A+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play TO THE FLOWERS [Best Version WIP] on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, silence through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-27, snare through bars 28-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-55, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31 and 35, and 21 more places -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x------x--x-|
TO THE FLOWERS [Best Version WIP] -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 36, 41, 42, 44, 46, 47 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- D, E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-37 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-72 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 96-103 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 100-119 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is TO THE FLOWERS [Best Version WIP]?

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 TO THE FLOWERS [Best Version WIP] 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 TO THE FLOWERS [Best Version WIP]?

7 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 36, 41, 42, 44, 46, 47 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED