← SONGS

Trooper Salute "冷たいマーメイド" · Trooper Salute

EXERCISE 26 OF 77
Join Chorus 2 to Part C (bars 55-57)
88 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART C
PART C
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART K
PART W
PART AI
PART AN
12 groovesBYCGAI+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 9
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Trooper Salute "冷たいマーメイド" on drums

173 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-77, ride through bars 78-85, snare through bars 86-90, ride through bars 91-105 and snare through bars 106-110, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 7 and 10-11, and 10 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x--x--x-x|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Trooper Salute "冷たいマーメイド" -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 29, 31, 32 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-25 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-66 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Trooper Salute "冷たいマーメイド"?

132 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 Trooper Salute "冷たいマーメイド" hard to play on drums?

58 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Trooper Salute "冷たいマーメイド"?

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 29, 31, 32 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED