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Uplift (full) · Pineapple Express

Uplift (full) · Pineapple Express
EXERCISE 3 OF 101
Groove AH -- Part AH (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 101 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AA, PART AI, PART AH
PART F
PART AA
PART AI
PART AH
PART F
PART AD
PART AH
CHORUS
15 groovesAXAAADAHF+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Uplift (full) on drums

206 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-25, silence through bars 26-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-56, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 65-66, 69-70 and 105-110, and 2 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    105              106
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |xxxx--x---x-xxx-|x--x--x---------|
Uplift (full) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 51 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- AD, AX -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 10-25 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part O -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Uplift (full)?

140 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 Uplift (full) hard to play on drums?

49 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Uplift (full)?

22 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED