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Trees. · Mccafferty

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove C -- Outro 2
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COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCS1DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Trees. on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-11, snare through bars 12-21, hi-hat through bars 22-37, snare through bars 38-45, hi-hat through bars 46-51 and snare through bars 52-61, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-13, 18-34 and 36-46, and 2 more places -- 86.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
Trees. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 47, 50, 51 and 79.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Trees.?

100 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 Trees. hard to play on drums?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Trees.?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 47, 50, 51 and 79.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED