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Viva Kalman · Агата Кристи

Viva Kalman · Агата Кристи
EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove H -- Chorus
0 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART Z
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
9 groovesHKLFZ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Viva Kalman on drums

126 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-39, toms through bars 40-41, hi-hat through bars 42-52, toms through bars 53-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-113, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-21, 25-29 and 48, and 9 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    16
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----x-----x-----------|
Viva Kalman -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 51 and 52.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, L -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-31 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-48 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Z -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 68-93 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Viva Kalman?

172 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Viva Kalman hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Viva Kalman?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 51 and 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED