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Western Haikus · Title Fight

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBMJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Western Haikus on drums

71 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 1:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
1:50
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, snare through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42, snare through bars 43-50 and kick and crashes through bars 51-52, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 10-16 and 19, and 10 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 42, 51, 52 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, M -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-61 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Western Haikus?

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

Is Western Haikus hard to play on drums?

51 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 1:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 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 Western Haikus?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 42, 51, 52 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED